a • magazlne of understanding VOLUME XXVI. NUMBER 8 AUGUST. 1961

A beautiful view of the Ambassador College grounds in Pasadena, California . Only a few weeks remain before final enrollment. Our College catalog pro­vides full particulars for anyone considering a college education.

Page 2 The PLAIN TRUTH

Heart to Heart Talk With the Editor

THIS is written in Copenhagen, Denmark. On the ferry, enrome here from Hamburg, Germany, my

attention was arrested by twO bewhisk­ered intellectuals about thirty-five years of age.

I do not know what nationality they were. Perhaps French. One of them was reading a newspaper which appeared co be French. But no maner. These young men, just approaching the very prime of life, appeared to be possessed of higb­grade natural intelligence and above­average abiliry_

Yet their faces registered discontent, boredom. They looked tired, cynical. Their expressions seemed to say : "Every­thing is all wrong. The world's gone to

the dogs. There is no chance-no hope. So why try? What's the use?"

They appeared to be college educated, and of good family, yet theit heavily bewhiskered state, and the lines in their unhappy faces, seemed to register dis­gUSt and prOtest against society.

They certainly were nOt happy. They were not enjoying life. They were Dor living the abundant life. Yet, apparently, they possessed every advantage of birth, cultural rearing, education, and heredi­tary upper-bracket intelligence and abiliry.

What was wrong? I could nOt help thinking_ I felt sorry

for them. A sense of compassion gripped me. I knew what was wrong! It was a combination of ignorance of the real PURPOSE of life--<>f the human po­tential in The Eternal Creator's Plan­the lack of any PURPOSE in life that should arouse ambition, create interest in life, stimulate incentive to enthusias­tic endeavor, replacing their bored, frus­trated lethargy; a combination of this ignorance and tOO much false education in this world's philosophies and vain concepts.

Yes, I felt sorry for them. I could nor help experiencing pangs of sadness of heart.

Well , then! Why didn't I go to them, introduce myself, and enlighten them? I do know God's tremendous PURPOSE! I do have the knowledge of the true values they lack. Couldn't I save them from their negative cynicism, and bring joy to their hearts by disclosing co them the wonderful TRUTH? They appeated to possess ample natural intelligence to gtasp things quickly. Wouldn't they wel­come the glorious TRUTH that would open up vistas of a happy, joyous, enthu­siastic ETERNITY before them?

Ah, no! Only too well have I learned the impossibility of such impetuous, well-meaning, but misguided and un­wise zeal.

If I should have attempted co en­lighten them, they would surely have looked at me with a sneering, indulgent sense of piry and scorn. They would have thought me a crack-par. They would have felt sorry for me, even as I had been feeling sorry fat them! Their minds have been poisoned with this world's false education. They have be­come wise in their own conceits. The false knowledge they have imbibed sets up an automatic prejudice against TRUTH. And this prejudice is a postive barrier to the entrance of any truth into their minds.

WHY, if God has opened my eyes co His positive, hope-inspiring, pOtential FUTURE for humanity, do I nor make every effort to enlighten these "ignorant intellectuals"? The answer is, I do-in the only way God has directed-the only way that can save even an infinitesimal minoriry-and the way that God has decreed to be a witness against a stub­born and vain humaniry_ God is surely making His glorious Truth accessible ro those who wam and welcome it­through The WORLD TOMORROW pro­gram-world-wide, on the world's most powerful radio stations-and on every inhabited contioeO[ 00 earth. And also, through the power of the priming press - The Plain Truth, numerous free book-

August, 1961

-the-

PlA~N TRUTH a magazine of u.ndeTitanding

VOL XXVI NU 8

Publishled momhly at Pasa.d~na, California; London England: and M~lbourne, Australia, by Ambanado; Collqe. @ 1961, by R..1dio Church of God.

EDITOR HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Garner Ted ArmStrong

MANAGI NG EDITOR

Herman 1. Hoeh

SENIOR EDITOR

Roderick C. Meredith

AssociaJe EdiloTJ Albert J. Portune David Jon Hill

Contributing EdilorJ C. Paul Meredith Basil Wolverton Jack R. Elliott Clint C. Zimmerman Ernest 1. Mardn Charles V, Dorothy

News Bureau Director Gene H, Hogberg

Research Staff Donald D. Schroeder C. Sherwin McMichael

Jack M. Pyle Joyce F. Sefcak

Editorial and Production AuiJtant James W. Robinson

RegiontJl Editors Abroad United Kingdom: Raymond F. McNair

Australia : Gerald D. Waterhouse South America : Benjamin 1. Rea

BUSINESS MANAGER

Vern R. Manson Circuialion Ma11agers

United States: Hugh Mauck United Kingdom: Charles F. Hunting

Ausualia: Gene R. Hughes South America : Leon Walker

Canada: Dennis Prather

YOUR SUBSCRIPT ION has ~n paid by others. Bulk copies for distribution nOI given or sold.

ADDRESS ALL CO~(MUNICATIONS to the Editor, Box J I J, Pasadena, California. Canadian rt'lldcts should address POst Office Box 44, Station A, Vancouver 1, B.C .• Canada. Our readers in United Kingdom , Europe, and Africa should :1ddr~ss the Editor, B.C.M. Ambassa· dor, London W.Cl. Readers in AUStralia. the Philippines. China and southeaStern Asia should address the EditOr, Box 345, North Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

SECOND CLASS POST AGE paid at Pasadena, Cali· fornia. BE SURE TO NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY af any change in your address. Please: inclose both old and new addteucs. IMPORTANT'

lets, the Bible Correspondence Course-­aU freely offered, without money and without price to those who will receive them!

Yet, to most of the world, this Truth, being THUNDERED around the world co­

(Please continue on page 24)

Could You Be "BRAI NWASH ED

, , ? •

Could you be hypnotized? Should you keep your mind open , or closed? No question is more important . Be sure you understand .

Y au NEED to think about this. There are things you need to

know abottt your mind. Various reports came our of Russia

about what happened to the captured American U·2 pilOt, Francis G. Powers, in 1960. One fearure story in a London newspaper reponed that Mr. Powers had been brainwashed.

The report described the process. He had been kept in solhary confinement for weeks, allowed [Q see no human being except one examiner. The lightS in his small cell were kepr extra­ordinarily bright day and night. At first he was denied food. He was sharply questioned. When his answers were nOt

what the examiner wanted, be was beaten severely. Then he was left abso­lutely alone for days. Then, gradually, as he began co he willing to give the answers [he examiner wanted, he was given a little food.

Finally he was brought around to

actually believe he had committed a terrible wrong against Russia-that Russia was in the right. By the time of his show-case "trial," which was a farce for purposes of world-wide propaganda, Powers had become docile, completely co-operative. He said before the world precisely what the Russians wanted said.

Everything Else Worthless­Without rt!

Could the Russians brainwash yOft? Don't be tOO sure! You need co know the TRUTH about your mind!

We are tOld that we should keep an open mind. Yet it was the very fact that Mr. Powers opened his mind, that allowed the Russians to inject psycho­logical poison inco it. Not only that. They probably warped and ruined his mind for life!

Should wc, then, keep Our minds

by Herbert W. Armstrong

closed? This is a question you need to

understand. Very few do! What would anyth;,'g be worth to

you, without your mind? YOltr mimi is 'Jottr most preciottJ pOISeSSio1l! Suppose that on the outside of your head you had beautiful hair, ears, nose, mouth, eyes-but no mind on the inside! Sup­pose you had a neck, shoulders, arms, torso, legs and fect-but no head- no brains-no mind! Suppose you owned vast possessions, and had a hundred million in the bank-but no mind! WOULD ANYTHING BE WORTH ANY­THING TO you?

Our Minds Are FED

Yet most people have little or no conception of the IMPORTANCE of the mind. And most people-psychologists and psychiatrists included-do flOt tmderstand the mind! They are in ignorance of the reason God created it. They do not underscand the true PUR­

POSE of the mind, or how properly to

possess and use it! Being in total ignorance of God's

purposes, right uses, and the potential destiny of hwnans, a new "profession" has sprung up in the world-based on human reasoning in ignorance--called psychiatry. These people pose as mind docmrs. They pretend to cure neuroses, I

and bring patiems "peace of mind." This misguided profession was starred, in its modern form, by Sigmund Freud and the school of contemporary psycho­analysts led by Horney, Alexander, Rado and their ilk. The world accepts them and dignifies them with the tide "doctOr." Yet none needs his mind examined so much as these supposed mind donors!

Colleges and universities teach courses in Psychology. Yet the authors of their textbooks, and the professors who teach

it, are in ignorance of the real TRUTH

about rhc human mind-its PURPOSE,

and proper use. Few realize that our minds, like our

stomachs, 1zeed to be fedl And, in school, they get fed! But they get fed a diet of error mixed with truth. They still are eating away at that same tree of KNOWLEDGE of "good and evjl" our first human mother partook of and fed to Our first human father, Adam. They are fed a diet of mental poison mixed with material, factual truth, but devoid of spirirual knowledge.

If you put in your stOmach a mixture of health~giving wheat and vegetables, mixed with an equal portion of pOtas­sium cyanide, it will kill you in a few moments. If you eat a mixture of good food and excessive starch, sugar, fat, and unclean meats- as nearly everyone does-you are committing suicide On the installment plan. This diet will slowly poison your system, produce numerous diseases, and kill you in ten to sixty years.

And if you allow your mind to be fed on the usual diet of uuth mixed with error, your mind is being slowly drugged, and it will perish, along with your body-in a final lake of fire!

Our bodies require food composed of a proper balance between the alkaline and the carbohydrate elemems. But we leave Out, take OUt, or cook OUt, mose of the alkaline elemems and consume an overdose of the carbohydrates, which produce most of our diseases, including colds and fevers, rheumatism, hay fever, diabetes, cancer and heart troubles.

And in our memal diet we imbibe an overdose of materialistic knowledge almost to the exclusion of the spiritual; and even in materialistic teaching our schools mix exact and factual knowl­edge with erroneous hYPOtheses, specu~

Page 4

lations and errOrs based on human conjecture, reasonings, and ignorance.

"Not All There!"

We ridicule supposed morons or the mentally deficient, saying they are "not all there." The fact is, nearly all of those who teach us what we take into our minds in school and college, are most assuredly "nm all there."

The fact is, we were all born only "half rhere!"

I have said so many times that we were all born incomplete! We were born of the f/eIh-and we are flesh. God formed man, OOt Ollt of spirit, bur "of rhe dust of rhe ground"--{)f rhe earrh-earrhy (I Cor. 15:48-49).

We were made to need FOOD ro live. Bur, as Jesus Christ said, man was made to live, not by bread alone, bur by every Word of God-rhar is, nor merely by marerial food, bur by rhe spiritual food we receive from the Holy Bible!

Bur man has CUt himself off from God! There is an absolute, impenetrable BARRIER between natural, carnal minded man and God. Man can receive spi·ritttal food only from GOD!

And remember-you do not receive spiritual food inro the sromach. bur into the mind!

And so it is not the body, btlt the MIND that "is nm all there"-that is born incomplete! And when I say that God did nor create Adam complete­that the creacion of Genesis chapter one describes only the material creation~ I am referring to the deficiency of MIND, primarily. True, our bodies, being ma· terial, now laSt only an average of some 70 years for adults. True, if we are converted, and to be given ETERNAL LIFE, even our vile, corruptible bodies are to be cba1'l,ged from matter to spirit instantaneously, at the time of tbe resurrection.

Bur it is the MIND, nor the body, which can receive the spiritual food during rhis life-and mmt be fed God's true spiritual diet IF the body is to be changed.

What Adam and Eve rejected, in the Garden in Eden, was the fruit of the uee symbolizing God's HOLY SPIRIT!

It is mao's MIND that is incomplete -nor "all rhere"-for rhis life. His MLND was made to 11eed God's HOLY

Tbe PLAIN TRUTH

SP1RIT. God's Spirit being received into our minds is the impregnation of the very GOD-LIFE, begetting us as God's children. It adds the SPIRITUAL or DIVINE content ro the material content of our minds. It introduces lOre our minds a meally new attitude, means of mental approach, v ie\vpoim, concept, capacity of comprehension.

The nacural carnal MIND has no capac­ity whatsoever for comprehension of SPIRITUAL TRUTHS. The unconverted, naturally born carnal mind therefore, cannot 1mderItand the BIBLE! A nar­ural mind may grasp a few of the materialistic ponions of the Bible---and it contains material as well as spiritual knowledge, in properly balanced pro­portion-bur no carnal mind can com­prehend and truly UNDERSTAND the spiritual revelations of God's Word!

Yes, Actually CRAZY!

Without chis BASIC revelation of spiritual TRUTH, no system of knowl­edge can be complere. The SPIRITUAL revelation is the foundational knowl­edge. It is what we need first, nOt last! The knowledge of what we are, why we are-thar is, the PURPOSE of life--our potencial DESTINY, rhe spiritual LAWS

OF LIFE-the WAY to peace, happiness, prosperity and everything good-this is rhe FOUNDATIONAL knowledge. None of this world 's leaders possess ic. The knowledge man is equipped to discover aod acquire by his own processes-the knowledge receivable rhrough the eyes, ears, sense of feel, smell and taste­may be added ro this foundation. Then, human REASONING, coming from a Spirit-led mind, BASED ON THIS TRUE FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE, leads to correct and truthful conclusions.

But man, CUT OFF from this founda· tion on which to build-in ignorance of the very factual BASIS for his reasoning and speculating, has arrived at erroneous conclusions. And these false conclusions formulate a very large portion of the organized knowledge-the srore of knowledge in this world's libraries, and in the text books used in this world's education.

The tcue FACT is, this world's psy­chiatrists are themselves actually and literally CRAZy-if you understand the true meaning of the word!

August, 1961

Two of these quack psychiatrists, to my personal knowledge, testified in Court that a woman was insane, and needed to be committed, for 't~o reaS01J other thatl that she studied rhe Holy Bible to leaFtl b01.l) to li've and how to 1'ear her children'! Had this woman nOt been represented at the trial by an alert attorney, she would have been com­Dlirred to an institution, deprived of her freedom-her children rom from their loving Christian mother and made wards of a cold, loveless court!

Bur actually, and literally, it was these self-professed mind doctors who were insane. Their minds simply were nor "all there." They were in ignorance of foundational, basic TRUTH. Their reasoning was based on false hypotheses, assumed and carelessly taken for granted. They based reasoning on el'ror. Yet they merely had swallowed, unques­tioned, what certain text books fed them, authored by ocher misguided and ignorant men!

Actually, the carnal, unconverted rnind--<onraining its physical content only, devoid of rhe spirirual-knowing only whar PHYSICAL knowledge can be received thru the five senses-is a mind bound co go off into false and erroneous ramifications of ideas, suppositions, hy­potheses, speculations, and believe a ridiculous and weird system of myths!

(PleaJe comint" 011 page 14)

HOW YOUR PLAIN TRUTH SUB­SCRIPTION HAS BEEN PAID

So many ask: " HOW does it h:ilppen ch:ilt t lind my subSCription price for The PLAIN TRUTH h:ils already b.tm pllid? HOW C2n you publish such 11;

high class magazine without :ild"ertising revenue?" The answer is as simple as it is auonishiog! It is

a paradox. Christ's Gospel annat be sold like merchandise. You a nnat buy salvadon. Yet it does COSt money (0 publish Christ's TRUTH 2nd m2il it (0 aU continents on earth. It does h:ilve to be pllid lo,! This is Chrin's work. We solve this problem Christ's WAY!

Jesus uid. "This Gospel of the Kingdom sh:illl be prt'llched (:ilnd published-Mark 13:10) in all the world for :iI witness unto :il1I nations" ( Mal. 24:14) allh;J lim •• JUSt before the end of this 2&(:' A PRICE mUll bll paid fOr the m:ilgazine, (he broad· C1Ut. the Correspondeoce Course. or other literature. But HOW? Christ forbids us to 111/1 it to those who receive it: "Freely ye have reaived," said Jesus to His discip,Jes who He was sending (0 proclaim His Gospel, 'freely GIVE!" "rr is more bleJled," He said , "to GIVE than to receive. "

God's WAY is the way of LOVE-:ilnd th~t is the way of iiving. God expeCts every child of His to g;v, free·will offerings and to tithe, as His means of paying the COStS of carrying His Gospel 10 olbe,J. We. therefore. sim:r.ly uuu our Lord Jesus Christ to lay it on the min 5 and hean:s of His followers to give gtnerousl}'. thus payin$ the COSt of putting the p~ecious Gospel TRUTH In the hands of olbers, Yet it must go 011/' to tho~ who tlslt lor it 101 Ibemselves! bch mUlt, for himself. lublcribfJ-'lnd his subscription has thus already hlllm pllid.

Thus the living d)'namic Christ Himself enables us to broadcaSt. world·wide. without ever asking for contributions over the air; to enroll many thouunds in Ihe Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Coune with full tuition COSt aheadr pllid; 10 send your PLALN TRUTH on an Ilkead, paid basis. God's way is GOOD!

Tragic U.S. WATER CRISIS Here Now!

Pure water now carries a premium price in America. A public and private thirst for this most vital of all resources is being felt in sections all across the country. Here , direct from news releases from our News Bureau at Ambassador College, are

the fads! The WATER crisis has ALREADY BEGUN . by Ge ne H. Hogberg "I N FIFTEEN years we will need

TWICE as much water as we do now ... T oda y 40 million A mer·

iean! are on the edge of a IeriolU wate" shortage and water tables are falling al­most everywhere. Today nearly every maior waterway in the United States is polluted." (T his W eek Magazine, Jan· uary 15, 1961.)

The President's Own W ords

These shocking words, spoken by President Kennedy JUSt prior to his inauguration th is January, graphically describe America's newest and gravest domestic danger-the shortage and pol­lurion of its water supply.

Ever since the fou nding of th is coun· try, Americans have caken the abun­dance and purity of their water for granted. "If there is one thing which the ordinary American city dweller nev­er thinks about from one end of the year co the other, it is water. He rums on the tap, and water pours; he rurns off the tap incompletely, and it drips; he flushes the toilet, and it roars. To most Americans today, purc, palatable water in unlimited quantities is a kind of birthright, like citizenship, and nm even the Supreme Court can ever take it away . ...

fiNo following generation of Ameri­cans is ever likely to share this luxuri­ous attitude. WE ARE RAP ID LY RUN­

N ING OUT OF GOOD WATER .... With· out: a well-financed, well-conceived na­tional water program, we will inevitably drink our way i1lto a famine. And it will be TOO lATE to plan America's future on THE DAY THE TAPS RUN DRY" (Harperls Magazinel October, 1958, emphasis ours).

Leaders Alarmed

The seriousness of the first part of

Wide Worl d Photo All too ofte n the wate r you d rink ha s to be " p u rified ll by g e rm cultures, a s above photo shows. Even thi s modern p la nt in Willow Ru n, Michigan, only renders the w ater 93 per cent pure .

th is problem-that of water shorrage­is becoming so acute chat tOP meteor­ologists and government experts have been forced to scale down theit predic­tions as to when the full impact of the shortage will be felt. Previously, their estimates ranged from 1975 to 1980, but this is no longer the case. A very recent government study revealed chat the United Scates "will be in serious difficulty in about ten years unless it can turn salt water into fresh water eco­nomically, a congressional study warned. A report prepared by the House Science Committee said the nation already is using et:ery available drop of its fresh water supply.. . The study found 'a likelihood chat the United Scaces will be the first of the high civilized, tech-

nologically advanced nations to find it­self in real difficulty due co fresh water shortages: It predicted the difficulty will materialize by 1970 or before, as m1~ch as IO YEARS EARLIER th." previous studies have itldicated jj (T be Orego'nimt, Portland, January 30, 1961).

The Senate, as well as House, has been investigating the worsening water situation, and has prepared a report "which sounds an urge1lt 1lote of alarm over the nation's rapidly dwindling water supplies. The repoer, issued by the Senate's Select Comminee on Na­tional Water Resources, includes a warning by the chairman, SenatOr Rob­ert S. Kerr (D) of Oklahoma, that the national sectl,rity will be threatened 1m-

(Please continue on page 7)

Page 6

TO THE U. S, & CANADA

WINS-New York-lOlO kc. 7 :30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sun.; 11:00 p.m. Sat.

WNTA-Newark, N .J.-970 00 dial -9 :00 a.m. Suo.-8 :00 p.m. Mon. thru Fri.-9:00 p.m. Sat.

WIBG-Philadelphia-990 on dial-12:30 p,m. Sundays.

WPIT-Pittsburgh, Pa.-730 on dial -7:00 a.m., every day.

WEAW-Chicago-1330 00 diaJ-9:30 a.m., Sun. (AM & FM), 7 :00 a.m., Mon. thru Sat.

WWVA-Wheeling, W. Va.-1170 on dial-l0:30 a.m.; 11:15 p.m., Sun., E.S.T.; 10 :00 p.m., Mon. thru Fri.

WKYR-Keyser, W. Va.-1270 on dial-5 :30 a.m" daily.

WCKY-Cincinnati, Ohio-1530 on diaJ-9:30 p.m. Suo., 5:30 a.m., Mon. [hm Sat., E.S.T.

WSPD-Toledo, Ohio-1370 on dial -9 :05 p.m. every night.

WADC-Akron, Ohio-1350 on dial-9:30 p.m. every night.

WIBC-Indianapolis, [nd.-1070 on dial-1O:30 p.m., Sunday.

WJBK-Detroit, Mich.-1500 on dial-9:30 a.m., Sun.

WSM-Nashville, Tenn.-650 on dial-12 midnight Mon. thru Fri.; 1 :00 a.m. and 9 :00 p.m, Sun., C.S.T.

WLAC-Nashville, Tenn.-151O on dial-7 :00 p.m .• daily; 5 :00 a.m. Mon. thru Sat., e.S.T. j 10:30 a.m. Sun.

WPTF-RaJeigh, N.C.-680 on dial -5:30 a,m. and 8:05 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.; 9 :30 a.m. Sun.

WGUN-Adama, Ga.-lOlO on dial -Mon. thru Sat. 11 :00 a.m., Sun. 4 :00 p.m.

WMIE-Miami. Fla.-1140 on dial -8:30 a.m. Sun.; 11:30 a.m. Mon. thm Sat.

WGBS-Miami, Fla.-710 on dial-10:30 a.m. Sun.

KWKH - Shreveport, Louisiana -1130 on dial-9: 15 p.m. Mon. thro. Fri.; 11 ;00 a,m. and 11:30 p.m. Sat. ; 10:30 a.m. and 10:BO p.m. Sun,

WNOE-New Orleans, La.-1060 on dial-9 :30 a.m. Sundays.

KTHS-Little Rock, Arkansas-I090 on dial-9: 15 p.m. Mon. tbru Fri.; 8 :00 p.m. Sat.; 9 :30 a,m. and 8: 15 p.m. Sun.

XERF-Del Rio, Tex.-1570 on dial-l0:00 p.m., Mon. thru Sat. ; 11 :00 p.m., Sun.

KCTA-CotJ:'us Christi, Tex.-l030 on dial-12 :30 p.m. Mon. tbru Fri . ; 4:30 p.m, Sat.; 2:00 p.m. Sun.

XELO-SOO on dial-every night, S:OO p.m., M.S.T., 9:00 p.m. C.S.T.

XEG-I050 on dial-every night, S'30 p.m. C.S.T.

KRLD-Dallas, Texas-lOBO on dial -6:30 p.m. Mon. thtu Sat.; 8:10 p.m. Sun.

The PLAIN TRUTH

RADIO LOG "The WORLD TOMORROW"

KCUL-Dallas, Tex.-1540 on dial -7:00 a.m., Mon. thru Sat.; 1 :00 p.m., Sun.

KTRH-Houstoo, Tex.-740 on dial -7:00 p.m., every night.

KENS-San Antonio, Tex.-680 on dial-1O:30 p.m. every night.

KFMJ-Tulsa, Okla.,-I050 on dial -12 :30 p.m., every day.

KRMG-Tulsa, Okla.-740 on dial -10:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.; 7:30 p.m. Sun.

KBYE-Okla. City, Okla.-890 on diaJ-I0:30 a.m., Sun.; 12:30 p.m., Mon. thru Sat.

W'KYB-Paducah, Ky.-570 on dial -12:00 noon, Sun. thru Sat,

KCMO-Kansas City. Mo.-810 on dial-1O:05 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.; 7:30 p.m. Sun. 5:00 a,m. Mon. thru Fri.

KWTO-Spring6eld, Mo.-560 on dial-7:00 p.m. daily.

KXEN-St, Louis, Mo.-lOIO on dial -7:00 a,m., Mon. thru Fri., 10 :30 a.m., Sundays.

KWOC-Poplar Bluff, Mo.-930 on diaJ-6: 15 p.m., Mon. thru Fri., 7 :00 p.m., Sat.

KFH-Wichita, Kansas-1330 on dial-8 :30 p.m., Mon. thru Sat.; 9 :30 a.m. Sun,

KXEL-WaterJoo, Iowa-1540 on dial-8:00 l'.m., Sun.; 9:30 p.m. Mon. thm Sat.

KRVN-Lexington, Nebr.-lOW on dial-1O:30 a.m. every day.

WOW-Omaha, Nebr.-590 on dial -9:30 p.m. Sun.; 5:00 a.m. Mon. thru Fri.; 10:30 p.m. Mon. tbm Sat.

KFYR-Bismarck, N. Dak.-550 on dial-7 :00 p.m. every night.

WNAX-Yankton, S. Dak.-570 on dial-8:30 p.m. nightly.

KLZ-Denver, Colo.-560 on dial-10:45 p.m. Sun. tbru Fri.; 10: 30 a.m., Sat.

KCPX-Sait Lake City, Utah-1320 On dial-7:00 p.m. every night.

KlDO-Boise, Idah0-630 on dial-9:05 p.m., daily.

KPHO-Phoenix, Ariz.-910 on dial -6 :30 p.m. every day.

CKLW-Windsor, Ontario-soo on dial-7 :00 p,m. Sundays.

CFQC-Saskatoon, Saskatchewan -600 on diaJ-1O:30 p.m., Sun. thtU Sat,

In French-CKJL-St. Jerome, Quebec-900 kc.

-10 :30 a.m. Sunday.

HEARD ON PACIFIC COAST, ALASKA AND HAWAII

KGO-San Francisco-8lQ on dial-9 :30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.-10 :00 p.m, Sun.

KSAY-San Francisco, CaJif.-l01O kc.-7 :00 a.m. every day.

KRAK-Sacramemo. Calif.-U40 on dial-l0:30 p.m, every night.

August, 1961

KFRE-Fresno, Calif.-940 on dial -S :00 p.m. every night.

KHJ-Los Angeles-930 on dial-7:30 p.m., Sunday,

KRKD-Los Angeies--1l50 on dial -7:00 p.m .• Mon. tbru Sat,; 9 :30 a.m. and 6 :30 p.m. Sun.

KGBS-Los Angeles, CaUf.-1020 on dial-l0:00 p.m. Sun.

KBLA-Burbank-1490 on dial-7:30 a.m. &. 12:30 p.m. daily.

XERB-I090 on dial-7 :00 p.m. every night.

KNEZ-Lompoc. Calif.-960 on dial -9:30 a.m., Sunday.

KITO-San Bemardino-1290 on dial-7 :00 p.m. daily.

KIRO-Seattle, Wash.-71O on dial -10:30 p.m. and 5:30 a.m., Mon. thru Sat.

KNBX - Seattle - 1050 on dial-12 :00 noon every day.

KHQ-Spokane, Wash.-590 on dial -9 :00 p.m. every nighL

KWJJ-Portland-l080 on dial-10 :00 p.m., Sundays; 9 :00 p.m., Mon. thtu Sat.

KUGN-Eugene-590 on dial-7:00 p.m. Sun. thru Fri.; 7 :30 p.m. Sat,

KFQD-Anchorage, Alaska-730 on dial-9:00 p.m., nightly.

KULA-Honolulu, Hawaii-690 on dial-lO:OO p.m, every night,

In Spanish-KALI-Los Angeles, Calif.-1430 on

dial-4 :45 p.m. Suo.

TO EUROPE In English-RADIO LUXEMBOURG-20S

metres (1439 kc.)-Mondays and Tuesdays: 23:30 G.M.T.

In French-RADIO LUXEMBOURG-1293 me­

tres--5 :40 a.m. Mon. EUROPE NO. ONE-Felsberg en

Sarre, Germany - 182 kc. (1622 m.)-Wed. 5:45 a.m.

In German-RADIO LUXEMBOURG-49 me·

ues (6090 kc.) and 208 me· tres (1439 kc.)-Sun" 6:05 a.m.; Wed., 7 :00 a.m., M.E.T.

TO AfRICA RADIO LOURENCO MARQUES,

MOZAMBIQUE - 3301 kc. and 4925 kc.-1O:00 p.m., Saturdays; 10:30 p.m .• Mon· days and Tuesdays.

RADIO ELiZABETHVILLE (The Congo) - OQ2AD -7150 kc., 10 :00 p.m., Sun. (bru Fri.

-":':;,"O""A"S"'IA:-RADIO BANGKOK-HSIJS-461.5

metres (651 kc.), Monday 10:35-11:05 p.m.

RADIO TAIWAN (FORMOSA) "The 3rd Network, B,C.C!'-BED55 Taipei 960 kc.; BED23 Taichung 960 kc.; BED67 Taichung 3965 kc.; BED82 Chiayi 1460 kc.; BED79 Kaohsiung 1220 kc. -18:00 S.S.T., Wed. and Fri.

August, 1961 The PLAIN TRUTH

RADIO LOG (Continued)

RADIO OKINAWA-KSBK-880 kc. Sundays: 12:06 noon.

ALTO BROADCASTING SYSTEM -PHILIPPINE ISLANDS:

DZAQ, Manila - 620 kc. - 9 :00 p.m. Sunday.

DZRI, Dagupan City-l040 kc.-9:00 p.m. Sunday.

DZRB, Naga City-1060 kc.-9 :00 p.m. Sunday

DXAW, Davao City-640 ke.-9 :00 p.m. Sunday.

TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

2KY - Sydney, NSW - 1020 kc.-10:15 p.m. Mon. thru Thurs.; 10:45 p.m. Fri. and Sat.

2AY - Albury, NSW - 1490 kc. -10:30 p.m. Mon. thru Fri.; 10:00 p.m. Sun.

2GF - Grafton, NSW - lZ10 kc.-10:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.

2GN-Goulburn, NSW-1380 kc.-10 :00 p.m. Mon. thru Sac.

ZHD---Newcasde, NSW-1140 kc.-10:00 p.m. Mon. Ihru Fri. and Sun.

ZKA-Katoomba, NSW-7S0 ke.-10 :00 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.

2KM-Kempsey, NSW-980 ke.-10 :30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.

ZMW-Murwillumbah, NSW-1440 kc.-lO:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.

3A W-Melbourne, Vic.-1280 kc.-10:30 p.m. Sun.

3BO-Bendigo. Vic.-960 kc.-IO:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and Sun.

3CV-Maryborough, Vic.-1440 kc. -10:30 p.m. Mon thru Fri. and Sun.

3HA-Hamilton, Vic.-IOOO ke.-10:30 p.m. Mon. thtu Fri. and Sun.

3KZ-Melbourne, Vic.-IISO kc.-10:45 p.m. Mon. Ihm Thurs.; 10:15 p.m. Fri.; 10:30 p.m. Sun.

3MA-Mildura, Vic.-1470 kC.-3 :30 p.m. Mon. wru Fri . ; 10 :00 p.m. Sat.

3SH - Swanhill, Vic. - 1330 kc.-10:30 p.m. Mon. thru Fri. and Sun.

3SR-Sheppanon. Vic.-1260 kc.-10:30 p.m. Mon. thtu Fri. and Sun.

3UL - Warragul, Vic. - 880 ke.-10:30 p.m. Mon. thtu Fri. and Sun.

3YB-Warrnambool, Vie.-IZIO kc. -10:30 p.m. Mon. thru Fri. and Sun.

4AK-Oakey, Qld.-1220 kc.-IO:15 p.m. Mon. thru Thurs.; 10 :30 p.m. Fri.; 9:30 p.m. Sun.

4BK- Brisbane, Qld. - 1290 kc.-10: 15 p.m. Mon. Ihru Thurs.; 10:30 p.m. Fri.; 9:30 p.m. Sun.

4CA-Cairns. Qld.-l010 kc.-lO:OO p.m. Sun. thru Fri.

4TO-Townsvil1e, Qld.-780 ke.-10:15 p.m. Mon. [htu Sat.

4KQ-Brisbane, QJd.-690 kc.­to :30 p.m. Sun.

4WK - Warwick. QJd. - 880 kc.-10:00 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.

6GE-Geraldton. WA-IOlO kc.-10:00 p.m. Mon. thru Fri.; 9:30 p.m. Sun.

6KG-Kalgoorlie, W A-860 kc.-10:00 p.m. Mon. thru Sat.

6PM-Perlh, WA-1000 kc.-1O :15 p.m. Mon. thru Fri.; 10 :00 p.m. Sun.

6AM-Northam, WA-980 ke. -10:15 p.m. Mon. [hru Fri.; 10 :00 p.m. Sun.

7 AD-Devon port, Tas.-900 kc.-3 :30 p.m. Sun. thru Fri.

7SD-Scottsdale, Tas.-540 kc.-4 :00 p.m. Sun. thru Fri.

2XM - Gisborne, New Zealand-1180 kc.-IO:00 p.m. Sat. and Sun.

TO LATIN AMERICA

In English-RADIO SWAN-Swan IsIand-1160

ke.--6 :00 p.m., Sundays. RADIO AMERICA-Lima, Peru-

1010 kc.--6:00 p.m. Saturdays. HOCZl, Panama City-1115 ke.-

7 :00 p.m., Sundays. HP5A, Panama City-11170 kc.-

7 :00 p.m., Sundays. HOK, Colon, Panama-640 kc.-

7 :00 p.m., Sundays. HP5K, Colon, Panama--6003 kc.-

7 :00 p.m., Sundays. RADIO CARAIBE5-Santa Lucia,

W.l.-840 kC.-IO:05 p.m. Thursdays.

In Spanish-RADIO SWAN-Swan Island-I 160

ke.-9 :00 p.m., Sat. and Sun. RADIO LA CRONICA-Lima, Peru

-1010 kc.-7 :00 p.m. Sun. RADIO COMUNEROS - Asuncion,

Paraguay-970 kc.-8:30 p.m. Thursdays.

RADIO SPORT - CXAl9 - Mont.· video, Uruguay-1183.5 kc.-4:00 p.m., Sundays.

RADIO CARVE-CXI6, 850 kc., and CXAI3, 6156 kc.­Montevideo, Uruguay - 3 :30 p.m., Saturdays.

In French-RADIO CARAIBES-Santa Lucia,

West Indies-840 kc.-9:4S a.m., Mon.; 10:0.5 p.m. Wed.

Tragic U. S. WATER CRISIS (Continued 'rom page 5)

less an immediate, aU-01/,t effort is lau.nched to conserve water . ...

"Four senators appended an even more pessimistic statement to the basic

committee report. 'WE LIVE ON THE

EDGE Of WATER BANKRUPTCY,' they said. The United States has barely enoll.gh usable water for present needs,

Page 7

none for growth" (The Sacramento Bee, January 30, 1961).

SenatOrs serving on the Interior Commiuee heard yet another solemn warning, this time from a top business executive: "In 10 years JerseyanI may have dry mouths unless sea water is converted for drinking, Cartol M. Shanks, President of Prudential Insur­ance Company, told a Senate Interior Committee hearing yesterday. Shanks said converted water from the sea is the ONLY CHOICE OPEN for the state's bur­geoning population and water demands" (Newark Star-Ledger, June 9, 1960).

The Senate was shocked a..gain when an independent research body, Resources for the Future. Inc., oudined in a re­POrt the staggering COSt necessary in crying to fend off the impending ca·

lamity. The conclusion of the report "is AWESOME," said a national magazine.

"Unless many areas begin water devel­

opment programs forthwith, they face

economic deterioration. The study calls for gigantic measures coSting $228 bil­

lion over 20 years to forestall a critical

shortage eStimated for 1980. A DROUGHT COULD PUSH THE DATE UP

SEVERAL YEARS" (Look, July 19, 1960, emphasis ours).

Weather Experts Fearful

Top meteorologists and water can· servationists are highly disturbed by worsening trends in America's weather patterns. As the Austin American re­ported, on June 16, 1960:

··Judge J. E. Sturrock, general manag· er of the Texas Water Conservation As­sociation .. referred to recent pre­dictions by leading meteorologists. Among these predictions was that made by Dr. Vance E. Moyer, formerly me· teorologist at the University of Texas, who said that within the next few yearI rdrouth will return to Texas . .. and our state will suffer the pangs of public and private thirst for rain.'

"While they varied on the date at which the drought would begin . .. (the meteorologists ) agreed that it would come BY THE END OE THE 1960s and that it would possibly be mOl'B c1'tl-cial than the great droughts of the 1930s and the 1950s .... Said Sturrock, 'These men know what they are talking about.

Page 8

T bey predicted the last drought.'''

The Future Is Here!

Dire warnings for the furure--the very near furure--but we muse realize even as these same reports tell us, that the problem is a/tfeady with us in a great degree! NOtice this starding article from the ArizOtUl Farmer-Ranchman, Decem­ber 3, 1960:

HOne of every Jeven u.s. communi­ties suffered last year from water shorr­age raced as moderate ro severe. No less than 79% of Illinois communicies were shorr of water for at least a parr of 1959. But tbe American people have refwed to pay any attention to a prob­lem that 'I ALREADY WITH THEM, is growing more acttte and one of these days 'will have practically the whole 11a· tion in desperate st·raits. Awakening the people to their da11ger is an im,peratwe necessity} according to William E. Rich­ards of Holdrege, Nebraska, president

I

I I

.......... I

The PLAIN TRUTH

of the Nadonal Associat ion of Soil Con­servation Districts" ( emphasis ours) .

To chat, add this almost unbelievable quoce:

"To many in the United States, the problem is alread" hue. More chan 1,000 communit ies were forced ro cur­tail the use of water in one recem year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. FORTY-FIVE STATES FELT SHORTAGES.

Today, the Geological Survey nores, NO AREA OF THE COUNTRY IS WITHOUT

SOME fORM OF WATER PROBLEM !"

(Look, July 19, 1960, emphasis ours). And rhis: "Nearly half the cities of

rhe U.S., faced with population rises as rhe urban shift gains momentum (Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, for example ) I face seriotu water problems" (The Detroit Ne,wI, November 29, 1960) .

And these area reports of falling water rabIes all acroSs the counrry:

TexaI: "On the high plains of Texas,

----_,.-1_._._._._ j-'---' , , I i ; ,

; ----.....:... I I

August, 1961

men are pumping up the underground water TWENTY TIMES faster than na­ture is replacing it."

Arizona: "For every seven gallons withdrawn from the Arizona 'water bank' ( underground basins ) only two gallons are puc imo it" (Arizona Farmer­Rancbman, May 24, 1958) .

California: "The drop in water levels in Pomona Valley is so severe as ro prompt immediate action in conserva­tion work. For instance, in the Clare­mom basin the drop is from 20 feet to 490 feet. In Chino, where the drop is the lease, tbe level a lirtle more than a year ago was 8.6 feet and it's down to

135.6 feet. In Pomona a level of 18.9 feet has dropped to 398.4 feet. Glen­dora has had a similar drop" (Pomona frogreII But/et,,,, February 26, 1961 ).

One harried Central California farm­er reponed thar his well which staned out at 116 feer, whh the pump set at 45 feet, is now down 820 feet. Pumping

.. ·····~ .. -.. -.. J._r ·-· -··---.--1

Key to polluted rivers and lakes

1. Columbia 10, Wabash 2. Colorado 11. Tennessee 3. South Platte 12. Ohio 4. Rio Grande 13. Chattahoochee 5. Red 14. Potomac 6. White 15. Delaware 7. Missouri 16. Hudson 8. Mississippi 17. Penobscot 9. Illinois 18. Great Lakes waters

19. Lake St. Clair-Detroit River

... NEARLY ALL MAJOR U. S. WATERWAYS POLLUTED!

Pictured on this map are only the major water­ways affected. Myriads of minor streams and tributaries likewise affected, many to even a greater degree, cannot possibly be shown here:-

Ambassador College News Bureau

August, 1961

now from 120 feet, he is getting only half the water the well should produce.

Illinois: "Near Chicago, where ar­tesian wells flowed under their own pressure a hundred years ago, new wells must go down 2,000 feet to reach the water table" (Ha-rperl Magazi11e, Oc­tober, 1958).

Minnesota: "The land of 10,000 lakes isn't producing enough water for its citizens .... A report of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Planning Commis­sian ... warned that water from indi­vidual wells can't be counted on for long term use in the suburbs, [hat deep reservoir supplies won't be adequate, and that increasing suess wiU be PUt on river water" (Fargo [North Dakota) Forum, August 5, 1960).

In the normally wet South: "In Mis­sissippi, wells are now 400 feet deeper, on the average, than they were OtJ./y tett years ago . .. . 11 (Harper'I Magazine, October, 1958, emphasis ours).

Remember, these are only a few sam­ple cases from a few areas.

The Tremendous Thirst of Industry

Still another facet of this worsening problem must be faced-the ever-in­creasing strain of American industry upon the shrinking water supply. Indus­try's gulping of water has skyrocketed an amazing 1000% since 1900.

For example, it takes ... 70,000 gallons of water to make

one ron of steel. 90,000 gallons to make one ton of

paperboard. 200,000 gallons for a ton of rayon. 600,000 gallons for a ton of syn­

thetic rubber. Industry accounts for 45 % of Amer­

ica's water consumption, and its thirsty parmer, agriculture, gulps an equal amount. It takes 110,000,000,000 gal­lons a day co irrigate America's farms. As rainfall becomes more and more unreliable, additional farm acreage is put under irrigation-adding to the problem by lowering ground water tao bles. Even Indiana, once abundant in rainfall. has seen a five-fold increaJe in irrigated land.

Ocher facets of the water crisis, for lack of space, can only be alluded to,

such as sale water iorrusion-a serious situation along parts of America's coast-

The PLAIN TRUTH

1958

1952

~

Page 9

110

74 BILLIONS

OF GALLONS PER DAY

10

AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL THIRST • • • UP 11 TIMES SINCE 1900.

Ambassador College Art Department

line where water levels have plummeted, permitting life-killing ocean wacer to

eorer the depleted basins. Another phase is the suicidal destruc­

tion of OUI watershed-the forest lands and swamp areas, which are natural reservoirs.

The Most Tragic Parr of It AII­Water Pollution

As if all chis were nor enough, we now come to the most immediately serious and obnoxioft! phase of the whole problem-rhe wanran pollution of our water supply. President Kennedy again keynoted the dilemma in his re­cent report on U.S. natural resources. He said chat wacer pollution had reached Ita/arming p'roportions" and that "cur­rem corrective efforts are noc adequate" ( UPI Release, February 23, 1961).

The pollution problem has reached such magnitude thac many governmental leaders are appalled and fearful of our national health. Senamr Robert F. Kerr recently warned:

r'polluti01t of 01#, toater systems may cause the death of 011,,, civilization. This FOUNTAIN OF DEATH has become a serious threat ra our way of life and is

a major hazard to the national healch as well as a major cause of the destruc­tion of our fish and wildlife" (Science News Leuer, December 24, 1960, em­phasis ours).

Surgeon General Burney, chief of the U.S. Public Health Service, calling for urgent aeeion to clean up our adul· terated waters said, "It is tragic for tbe world's richest, most powerful and most technologically advanced nation to foul its own nest, limit its own growth and threat." the heallh of its own people" (Los Angeles T ;'m.es, December 13, 1960 ) .

These high-ranking government offi­cials are nOt alone in their somber warnings. Water department heads across che country are alarmed. W rme one Chicago water department official:

'''Pollution of our rivers and Streams is increasing at a rate that constitutes a Inational disgrace/ Our waters are now receivitl,g TWICE as much po1l1ttiOtl from municipal systems al01le as was comidered allowable in 1955" ( Chi­cago Daily News, September 10, 1960).

"The Public Health Service is col­lecting water pollution reports that read like horror stories," wrOte nationally

Page 10

79% SHORT

79% of Illinois ·communities were short of water for at least a part of 1959.

known columnist Drew Pearson. "Gov· errunent doctors have traced paralytic polio in Camden, N .J., typhoid fever in Milwaukee, dysentery in Cincinnati, and yellow jaundice in Utah, ALL TO

POLLUTED WATER!

"The Columbia River," he continued, "is so contaminated in some areas that mere motorboat spray can came disease. In Washington, D.C., residents have been warned against earing fish caught in the Pocomac. and swimming in the Pocoroac is now almost nonexistent" (Grand Pork! H.,.a/d, February 13, 1960).

Millions Drinking Sewage Water!

The shocking condidon of the na· dan's water supply is revealed by the following almost unbelievable statistics:

"TWO-TH IRDS of the nacion's people get their drinking water from sources inco which are discharged disease-carry­ing bacteria, viruses and toxic material" ( Lo! Angeles Times, February 24, 1960).

"Where 2 million people gOt their drinking water from streams in 1900 and 24 million dumped sewage inca them, today 100 million depend on the same streams for their water and 120 million are dumping sewage into tbem" (Los Angeles Mirror New!, March 25, 1960).

The PLAIN TRUTH

"More than 70 million Americans, au[ of 117 million having public water sup· plies, now drink water that has been through a sewage or industrial plant fat least ottce'" (New Repu.blic, June 6, 1960).

''The Public Health Service poincs our that the 'water you usc may have beet]. flushed down SOme01Je else's bath· room'-perhaps yesterday or [he day before .... "

"When the Ohio River is low, 01t8 quart our of every gallon of water in the Stream has been belched into it by a sewet." "Already, Wheeling, West Vir­ginia is throwing in its dry sponge on Ohio River water, it ,ust can't purify it . ... Go OUt eo tbe South Platte River below Denver in the dry seaSon and you will find fo"r-fifths of itS concents is effiuem from the sewage treatmem plam" (American Legion Magazi11e, Oc· tOber, 1958, emphasis ours).

Recently released figuses (UPI, De­cember 11, 1960) reveal that pollution has increased 600% in the last 60 years. Public Health officials deplore the wide­spread practice of using our rivers and Streams as open sewers, but the pollu· rion continues. Hete are some striking examples:

The Missouri River an Open Sewer?

The Missouri River below Kansas City is "the worst polluted source of water supply in the United States," re­pOrted the St. Lou;! Globe-De",ocrat

August, 1961

on November 29, 1960. Bactetiological CountS of its water average 25 TIMES the allowable level for human consump· cion. Its fish ·'taste like coal oil." The Public Health Service reported finding fioatillg debris, garbage, blood and ma· nure from packing plams, feathers, oil, chemicals and domestic sewage in the river. All this, the paper said, "threatens to turn the Missouri ineo an open sew­er."

The Missouri is only O1le example. Nearly every major U.S. waterway is affected. The Chicago Daily New!, September 10, 1960 reported : "Pollu­tion has totally or partially ruined the quality of water in such rivers as the Ohio, Potomac, Red, White, Blt~e, Colo· rado, TenneJSee, Colll,mbia, HlIdson, MissiSJippi, Missouri, Wabash and Illi­flOi!."

All parts of the country are affected. Up in Maine, "the Bangor pool of the Penobscot . . . once held more salmon than any Other pool on the Atlantic sea· board, and its firSt fish of the spring was rrad itionally sent to the White House. Today the pulp mills (with their wasce) have deadened it as thor· OTtghly aJ if they had UIed hand gre­"ades . ... " (Atlantic M01lthly, OCto­

ber, 1960, emphasis ours).

Tbe Great Lakes "Dying"

Nor even che Great Lakes have been able ro escape this man·made plague.

(PleaIe continue on page 35)

INDUSTRY 451'0

THE 0

HOME 10 Yo

AGRICULTURE 451'0

AMERICA'S WATER WHEEL

THEOLOGY without God! Is modern "theology" really God's religion? What is the source of you r minister's belief? Who CONTROLS the seminaries? Read this shocking inside report of a top meeting of religious

"THE QUESTION is no longer 'Is the Bible true?,-bur, 'How much of the Bible is MYTH?'"

How much of the Bible is sheet fairy tale?

Millions of unsuspecting Christ ians would be SHOCKED to learn theif own ministers and pastors talk like this be­hind closed doors! Unbelievable as it seems, this is a direct quote from a leading minister of religion-a top­Right theologian!

A recent survey by a large Protestant denomination revealed fully 28% of its own ministers could noc 'completely' accept the very foundation of Christian belief: Jesus' resurrection! A national magazine recently said in studying the question of doubts in rhe ministry: "Clergymen themselves are subject to deeper and more anguished ATTACKS of OOUBT than most laymen will ever ex­perience (Cosmopolitan, December 1959 [emphasis ours),

A North Carolina hospital reveals that 60% more ministers than members have MENTAL DISORDERS and peptic ulcers!

What About Your Minister?

What abom your pastor? The per­centage of those who have set'iom doubt is on the increase. It may already affect one out of tw~every other one.' Is it your minister then, or the one just next door?

Something is drastically, CRIMINALLY WRONS!" in tOday's cletgy! Would you believe that the ministers of IIChris­tianity" ate UNDER DIVINE CURSE? God is displeased-ANGRY, with the ministers of this world!

Listen ro this stern rebuke from the Bible! Here is God's indictment of the ministers of modern Israel-Britian and America-wrircen long after Israel's previous captivity and prophesying a future national punishment in our time,

scholars and leaders!

by Cha rles V, Dorothy

NOW! "Woe be untO the pasrors that DESTROY and seA TIER THE SHEEP of my pasture! For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house [church] have I found their WICKEDNESS, saith the Lord" (Jet. 23:1, II ).

Speaking directly to ministers, God says: "The priests never asked 'Where is the Eternal?' Those who handled the law [religious scholars] CARED NOTH­

ING FOR ME .. ,"/ (Jet. 2:8, Moffatt translation. )

It is time you were told the truth of what goes on behind closed doors­what ministers talk about freely among themselves!

Mt. Herman 1. Hoeh, Dean of Am­bassador College, and I tecently attended me annual convention of the Society of Biblical Litetature and Exegesis held in New York. The Society, boasting the cream of American scholarship, with members and guests from leading British, European and Near East schools, met in famous Union Theological Semi­nary.

Here we found top-notch doctors and educators ftom all fields of Bible re­search. These men teach the teachers, and lead the leaders of our churches! This association is the ultimate-there is no higher in Protestant theology! Several aU-day meetings were held for the reading of ptepared papers and dis­cussion of difficult and technical Bible questions.

We were not disappointed with the roster of famous theological personali­ties. Here were over 300 of the most 1'e1~o ·wned, most intellectual, most schol­arly, most "Christian" personages! Surely, one would think, these men should be the most humble, the most spiritual, the most Godly of all on the face of this earth.

Opening SHOCK!

Expecting the opening session to starr

with a fervent, sincere prayer for God's guidance, we were utterly disappointed. The moderator's opening words-a car­nally pompous, flattering introduction to the first speaker-iolted us! No mention of God's name, no prayer for His guidance! How applicable Jesus' own words: "How can yOt~ believe, which receive honor one of anOther, and seek nOt the honor which comes from God only?" (John 5:44). Throughout the meetings, this spirit of hollow for­mality, vain conceit, and respect of persons prevailed.

Fallowing the introduction, the open­ing address (which set the rone for the rest of the convention ) was "Wisdom, Prophecy, and the Knowledge of God."

While the cigar and cigarette smoke cleared from the halls, Dr, ScOtt of Princeton read his extensive paper. The essence of his highly technical dis­cussion was somehow (he didn't know how ) we must come to know God. However, we must nOt he presumptuous and try to underJtand how we know Him, hence we certainly CANNOT UNDERSTAND GOD Himself!

"'Truth is, after all ," he concluded, "only the accumulated wisdom of the race, the social order, and the ASPIRA­

TIONS [vanity) of the PEOPLE!" This was HIS human theory of re­

ligious "truth." But Almighty God says juSt the opposite! "The CUSTOMS of the people ate VAIN" (Jer. 10:3 ). "Vetily every man at his best state is altogether VANITY" ( Ps. 39: 5 ) . According to the Bible, TRUTH comes only from God:" . . . and grace and (ruth came through Jesus Christ" (John I: 17). Someone is wrong-either God, or this head of Princeton's department of Theology!

After the learned doctor addressed the general assembly, the meetings split ioro twO sections----one for specialists of Old Testament study. one for Greek and New Testament research. A sample

Page 12

from each section will give you a clear idea of what went 00 behind these

closed doors. In the Old Testament section, a

learned scholar from Claremont G radu­ate School showed us how to scramble the order of Habakkuk 2:4-5-then splice the fragmems together, with an added word or twO from his imagina­tion. All this made the passage "plausi­ble" and more "understandable," he

said. But this shameless disregard is only

an admission that he doesn't 1InderJtand Habakkuk in the fi rst place! Note Isaiah 29: 10-11: "For the Lord harh poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one

that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saich, I cannor; for it is sealed."

In che New Testament sect ion, a

Un ivers iry of Virginia scholar con­demned Marrhew for deliberately falsi­fyi1lg and twisting his informacion! So -according cO these men-Habakkuk is UNRELIABLE, and Matthew is a vicio t~s

FRAUD! (Jesus said, "And rhe scrip­rure cannor be broken," John 10: 35.)

This gives you an idea of what we heard for three full days!

In these exclusive conferences, as well as in their privace studies and seminary Bible classes, the critics are busily "de­mythologizing" the Bible. This means they are culling rhe fairy rales and fables our of Bible hiStory! Supposedly rhen, God was not able to prevent error from sneaking into His Holy Word. Ir be­came garbled with vain imagination and lies of ignorant peasants (so says the· ology). Tear Out a lirrle here, add a few words there to complete the sense, juggle a few more verses, and there you have it -3 "new" Bible!

Are you ashamed of the foundation of your faith-rhe Bible? Dr. Herbert Sul­livan from Duke University carefully explained rhar we should not be ashamed rhar rhe Bible is shor full of myth! Here is a description of his "tranquilizer pill."

The new concept is that "MYTH [not trurh] is an imporcanr part of al1 science

The PLAIN TRUTH

and inreUectual investigation! Myth is an attempt co concretely express man's personal experience," he assured us. H e means that even though myth is not truth, at least it is a good attempt to express whatever religious experience we think we have had. ( This brilliant piece of phony maneuvering; is supposed to make up for God's being a LIAR! ) The thinking is : thi! is the best man Ca1l do-he can't find truth, bur he can

make believe-so we ought to be prottd of it!

The doctor cominued. Once we ac­cepr rhe Bible as largely bed-r ime rales of fancy, once we realize chat this theory is nothing to be ashamed of, we can "ttndeYItal1dll theology.' According to the dicrionary, [he word "theology" means "knowledge of God." "Theology," rhe doCtor said, "is inteliecrua11'ejlecti01l on myth!" In Other words, theology is mere human guesswork based on make-be­

lieve legends! Thus Dr. Herbert Sull ivan admits rbar

THEOLOGY AS TAUGHT TO MINISTERS "IN SEMINARY" IS NOTHlNG MORE

Have you enrolled in our free Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Course?

This is a totally new, different kind of Bible Study course, designed to lead you, by rhe Study of yo"r OW" bible, to UNDERSTAND rhe whole meaning of today's fast­moving SPACE AGE, of the PURPOSE being worked our here below, of PROPHECY, of SALVATION, of this entire Treasure-House of knowl­edge, which is GOD'S WORD­the TRUTH.

The moSt VITAL, moSt IMPOR­TANT questions of YOUR LI FE are thoroughly gone inw, and you are directed to the clear, plain, simple answers in 'Yotl,r BIBLE! You will learn HOW to Study rhe Bible-­WHY so few UNDERSTAND it. You will PROVE wherher rhe Bible reaUy is rhe INSPIRED WORD OF GOO!

JUSt address your letter request­ing rhe Ambassador College Bible Correspondence COUIse co Box 111, Pasadena, California, or to our Ca­nadian office, Box 44, Vancouver, B.C., if you live in Canada. Those in Europe should address our Euro­pean office: B.CM. Ambassador, London W.c. 1. And in Australia and southeast Asia : Box 345, North Sydney, Ausccalia.

Augus l, 1961

THAN HUMAN GUESSWORK BASED ON FAIRY TALES!

T heology COND EMNED!

Does your mind g rasp the awesome significance of those high·sounding state­ments' If rhe Bible needs to be "de­myrhologized," ir means; 1) GOD IS A LIAR ("All Scripture is given by in­sp irarion of God ... " II Timorhy 3:16); 2 ) the Bible is a deceirful conglomera­tion of histOry and myth ("primi tive

anempr co express religion")! It takes a little thought co understand the full 1/icious IMPACT of such LIES!

If you have nor absol"tely PROVED the existence of God, and the INFALLI­BILlTI' of God's Word, wrire immedi­arely for rhe free ( prepaid ) booklets, "Does God ExiSt?" and "The Proof of the Bible." There is no reason to re­main in doubt! trprove all things," says God in I Thessalonians 5: 21. God offers EVIDENCE so that you may erase all dotl-btl Remember, all this is from the mouths of g reat "men of God"! Can you have faith in such doctrines? If such blasphemy were crue, you could never TRUST God!

No wonder a guest speaker from Europe, Dr_ Willem F. Zuurdeeg con­cluded, "OUR FAITH IS A STUMBLING ATTEMPT TO RESPOND TO THE WORD OF Goo"! There it is!-the frank ad­mission of the reat spiritual stare of these exalred hypocrires. Obviously rhey are not living as their champion, the Apostle Paul, lived. Paul said, " .. . and the li fe which I now live in the flesh I live by THE FAITH of THE SON OF GOD" ( Gal. 2:20).

T h eology God 's Relig ion ?

What about men who think God is a LIAR? Could such men have the guid­ance of God when they don't even pray for His help? Will God help rhose who refuse to seek His will? "To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and tremblech ar my word·' ( Isa. 66:2). Would God inspire men who were more interested in which humans agreed with them­more interested in how the audience applauded? (The Sociery did reek wirh

this rype oL vaniry.) Can real spiritual undersranding be

fou nd with men who nei ther believe

Augus[, 1961

nor do what God says? "He that be~

lieveth [obeyeth} not the Son shall not see life; but the wtath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36 ) .

These men admit they have lost the government of God-that the church lacks power. Speaking of one of the papers "Curse and Blessing in the New Testament," one doctor said, "My, he doesn't mean to apply that in church, does he? Why, imagine a minister to~

day expelling an offender like Paul did in I Corinthians 5! The very term 'curse' shows its utter ttsetess1ZeJS raday!"

The TRUTH is that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, so it goes without saying Jesus is not in churches which have lost the New Testa~ ment~type of church government. "A good understanding have all they that DO HIS COMMANDMENTS" (Ps.Ill: 10 ) . No WONDER GOD CONDEMNS MODERN MINISTERS! How applicable Jesus' words to raday's theology: "Howbeit IN VAIN do THEY WORSHIP ME [they are te­ligious] teaching [they are ministers and teachers] for doctrines the precepts [theoties} of MEN" (Mark 7:7 ) !

WHY So Much RESEARCH

Few people realize the tremendous mountain of hours and costly mental effort spent every year on Biblical re~

search. Volumes and volumes of llrera~ ture are published, millions and mil­lions of words are read and spoken. What is the real motive behind all this? Is it ra SERVE, to REVEAL God's laws and ways to the people?

Mr. Hoeh and I found the bitter truth. The real "why" was obvious in these exclusive meetings. God says His divine Word is "profitable for doc­trine, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for instruction in . righteousness" ( II

Tim. 3: 16). These men will "ot accept CORRECTION-oar even from God!

Research is ESCAPE! The many long hours wasted in in­

consequential derails leaves these men tl)ithout time to OBEY GOD. Submerged in a mass of study, they are safe from God's Wotd. They torget the really important maners of the laUJ, by bury~ ing themselves in an avalanche of reo ligious red tape! ( Matt. 23:23). Worst of all; these involved, technical, unend­ing, pointless quesdons throw doubt on

The PLAIN TRUTH

the veracity, the trustworthiness of God's Word. This makes it seem un~

necessary to faithfully DO what the Word demands!

JUSt imagine what would happen to

the exalted social position of these learned docrors, if they began ra live and teach the real WAY of Christ. Most church leaders are agreed that Christ's teaching about loving your enemies and turning the other cheek is IMPRACTICAL Why? Simply because it is flOt popular, because people doo't want co change, therefore, a minister cal1/t make a liv­ing teaching that way!

The way to popularity, to fame and success as a minister is to teach the SMOOTH, "SOFT" way. This leads to

prestige and greater financial success. Ezekiel, speaking of today's Western democracies, says: ", . Thus says the Lord GOD: Ho, shepherds of Istael who have been feeding yourselves! (They teach (he doctrine most profitable to

themselves.) Should not shepherds teed the sheep [with God's truth-His Word]? You eat the fat, you clothe ycturselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings~ but yOU DO NOT FEED THE

SHEEP!" (Ezek. 34:2-3, RSV.). The popular, lucrative doctrine

preached today is ?lot God's theology! God also indictS the sbeep (the con­

gregation) for their part. "This is a rebellious people, lying children, children that WILL NOT HEAR THE LAW of the Lord: which say to the seers, 'See not'; and to the prophets, 'Prophesy not unto us right things, speak untO us smooth things, prophesy DECEITS'" (lsa. 30:9-10).

Religious leaders refuse to teach the truth; church-goefs do not want the truth taught to them.

No wonder Almighty God is ANGRY'

Disbelief MUSHROOMS

"James A. Pike, Episcopal Bishop of California said: 'There have been times, in the middle of a service, when I have been assailed by the moSt appalling thoughtS. I find myself saying: What am I doing bere? Does this make any sense?' , .. " (Cosmopolitan, December 1959). Again, doubt in high level church circles!

Even ministers DISBELIEVE the very things they teach! They doubt the very

Page 13

Bible which is the basis of their faith. There is a reason! You should be

told! \'qe saw this reason plainly in the

New York meetings. A vicious NEW

AOVANCE to undermine the Bible's authority has begun.

A carefully planned, well~executed

scheme is underway. The first stage is already accomplished. The second stage is now beginning to develop! Before we can grasp the full impact of the new second stage, we must understand the background-the first Stag~f this vicious plot.

Jesus' PROMISE BROKEN?

Christ said emphatically, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shalt not pass away/' Jesus' own words -the very ones recorded by the apostles in the New Testament-SHALL NEVER PASS AWAY! (Read Mat. 24:35, Mk. 13:31 and Luke 21:33.) But according to modern scholarship, they HAVE PASSED AWAY ALREADY! Who shall we believe--God, or man?

Scholars have been working almost 300 years to contradict Christ! They REJECT Christ's promise to PRESERVE His Word! Let's see how self~important critics try to get around Jesus' guaran­teed basis of revelation-the Greek manuscripts!

God's Word PRESERVED

God's first written revelation to man -the Old Testament-was faithfully copied and guarded by the Jews. "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chieRy, because that untO them were committed the oracles of God" (Rom. 3:1-2). The second great message to man, the New Testament, went to the Greeks for safekeeping. " . .. to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (Rom. 1:16).

Just as the Jews did with the Old Testament, so were the Greeks respon~ sible for preserving and copying the New Testament. How logical! The people who best knew the language of the Old Testament were Jews; the Greeks likewise knew their language best. Modern critics boldly and dis­gustedly reject the Greek-preserved manuscripts. This amounts to over 95 %

Page 14

of all New Testament manuscripts known. "Scholarship" now turns with greedy, bloodshot eyes to the scrap piles, garbage dumps, and slag heaps of Egypt and lral)'! This remaining 5 % of Greek manuscriptS found in the Egyptian and Latin world are corn"pl! Ie is .freely admined chese scraps and "rejects" con­cradict one another, and reilect various forms of perversion. But rhe greae critics relJ us nor co despair.

They reason: since each manuscript contains some errors. we lump rhem al1 tOgethet (aU 5% ) and come up with a pUle text! The errors will supposedly cancel oue one another. Amazing!

Two broad, false assumptions are hidden under this CIooked reasoning. Firsr, error plus error supposedly equals tHICh! Second, we muse assume we have found enough of these buried manu­scripts in order co reCOnStruct the CIuth.

If the manuscripts have really become losc and scattered as chey say, we would have 1tO idetl as co how long or shorr rhe New Testament should be, Tomor­row, somebody couJd find a losr verse, an extra chapcer--even a whole new book-char had been torally 1f1lkIl011'1t, lIVe could NEVER BE SURE when we had all of God's words! That is why Jesus promised in John 14 :26, "The Holy Spirit ... shall teach you all things and recall CO your rrunds everytbing I said to you." This assures us nothing was losr while the New Testament was being wriercn. Furthermore, Jesus promises, rhese words once written "s/)"ll 1l0t pass away"! (Mar:, 13:31). God has pre­served His Word for us all down through history!

Worse yer, chis means you and I CAN­NOT TRUST ANYTHING in rhe Bible coday! If the original manuscripts dis­agreed, how could we ever know what is true from whar is false? We would then be forced to rely on the judg­meor of chese vain scholars. Blir even if we completel} trust them, and even if [heir theory wc:re tcue, WE STILL CAN'T KNOW THE TRUTH! By their own ad­mission, rhey haven't "arrived" yec!

GOD repeats: "My words sh(lll 1JOt PtlH away,1I

Scholars in Trouble!

As chese learned men themselves admit, this poses a very Ierio11J queI·

The PLAlN TRUTH

tion. Is God still ALL·Powerful? Cruist said His words would nor disappear, would never be lost. The Holy Spirit was supposed to preserve them.

Jf we follow d,e ramblings of self­appointed critics. we muSt believe chose words were losc! We must then con­dude that the Holy Spirit is not power­ful e1t011gh to do its work. What is more, chis makes Jesus Christ a liar.'

How can chis probJern be reconciled? The recem meeting of the Society of Bible Literature and Exegesis admined this is a "puzzler." They don't know how 10 solve it!

Young, impressionable srudenrs are now caught this doctrine of doubc in

Could You Be BRAINWASHED?

(Co1tlimted from page 4)

God's Holy Spirit is the Spirit of a SOUND MIND--and no mind, without che Holy Spirit, can be SOUND in its thinking and reasoning. Perhaps the old Quaket, afrer all, was righc. He said 'ro his wife: "Martha, does thee know, the longer 1 live rhe more jt seems to me that JUSt abour everybody, except me and thee, is a lirde queer; and does thee know, Mareha, sometimes it even seems co me thar even THEE is jusr a lictle bie (IUeer!"

Guard the Door of Your Mind

You need, above a11 things, co guard the doot of your mind.'

HAVE A CARE what eorers there! YOll, and you alone, have the stern

responsibility for guarding (hat precious door!

Should you, then, have an OPEN mind? Or, co prevem being brainwashed or hypnotized, should you keep your mind CLOSED?

The answer is chis: GUARD THE DOOR OF YOUR MIND! Keep, withour prejudice, a question-

i11g mind. I do not mean a negative mind, hosrile and against everything, God's Word commands us co "PROVE ALL THINGS." You can quesrion, before accepting and believing, withouc nega­rive prejudice.

OPEN }'our mind co whac is proved TRUTH; RID your mind of bias. Do as che

August, 1961

seminary training. Their preparation for ebe minisrry is to undermi1~e and strip away wharever faith they may have had in the putity and reliability of the Bible! Plagued with serious questions and doubcs about the Bible, ·'seminarians" seep ioro the mosr responsibiHty-laden office God has granted to man-the ministry_

This is a sad picture. Modern religious education is destroying the faith of its o'Um ministers.'

ANGRY GOD

Now can you see why God is full of Almighty WRATH against false minis­

(Please cominue on page 18)

Bereans were commended for doing. When the Aposde Paul came to Berea, rhey did nor know whether he was an apostle of God Ot a false prophet.

So they opened the door of their minds, without hostile prejudice which would be only a barrier co the enuance of TRUTH inca the mind-bur yec with QUESTIONING minds-they opened the door just far enough to listen, to ex· amine, and co prove, before accepting. They searched the SCRIPTURES daily, whether these (hings were so. Finding chern proved, rhey ACCEPTED {he TRUTH!

The answer is, thac your mind should oever be prejudiced. Neithet should it be gullible. NEVER TAKE FOR GRANTED whar you read, or what you hear. Never accept anything JUSt because others do.

Could you be HYPNOTIZED? Many people can. I have seen ic done. Yer no one can hypnotize me! WHY? Because I WOttlt let him.' Unless I YIELD my mind to him, SUBMIT it inca his power, ALLOW him to gain comrol over it. he has no power over my mind whatsoever!

God made your mind so chac NO ONE can "cram his religion down your throac"~r rather, jnco your mind. God won'/, by force, puc TRUTH inca your mind. Unless you are wilJing, and volun­tarily accept it, you can never receive God's TRUTH. Conversely, even Saran the Devil has no power to force error ima your mind.

YOU ARE A FREE MORAL AGENT! God gramed you this freedom! AndJ with it, the stern responsibilicy for what you accept. believe, and DO!

As you sow, so shall you reap!

The l1STRANGE GOSPEL" We Preach-and WHY

Yes, many are astonished-;ust as people were who heard the same gospel from the lips of CHRIST! Here is the astounding

reason.

"you SPOKE differently from everything I was caught," writes a radio listener, "bur

thank Goo, I opened my Bible and was astonished to see with my own eyes that you were righc."

A "Strange Gospel"?

A critic labeled Christ's own Gospel, proclaimed in The Plain Truth and on The WORLD TOMORROW, "a strange GospeL" Indeed ir was scrange to him­and chis man professed to be a religious person!

Do you know WHY it sounds strange to some?

The answer is an almost incredible, shocking surprise! It is recorded that when Christ Himself proclaimed this same Gospel, the people "were aston· ished at His doctrine," When the Apostle Paul carne to Athens with this same Gospel, the founders of much that is called "Christianity" tOOay called him a "serref fonh of strange gods"­"for" they said, "thou bringest certain strange things [Q our ears" (Acts 17: 18, 20).

Well, here is an astonishing surprise.' It may be hard to believe, but ie's true! I was shocked [Q learn it, thirty-four years ago.

You probably have had the same experience I had-up to a point. From infancy my parents, upright, sincere Christian-professing people, took me to

church and Sunday school. Our family belonged. to a respected Protestant de­nomination. Actually, however, I did not know specifically what definite doc­trines our denomination believed. There are, of course, differences in the various denominational doctrines. Yet most churchgoers do nOt know much about what these differences are.

Yet I did always hear-as you prob-

by Herbert W. Armstrong

ably have--certain basic religious faun· clations: going to heaven; the immor­tality of the soul; our dead loved ones being now "in heaven with the Lord"; the wicked dead living forever in a burning hell; church members being already "born again" and "saved"; [he Christian obligation to celebrate Christ­mas, New Year's, Easter, Valentine's day, Hallowe'en, and a[(endance at church on Sunday.

Regardless of other doctrinal differ­ences, it seems virtually all fundamental­ist evangelical and professing Bible­believing denominations teach these things.

Of course I had always heard these things preached from earliest memory -even as you probably have. It never occurred ro me that everyone of these teachiogs were always assmned, bur l1·eve'r read, expotmded, or proved out of the BIBLE! Naturally I assumed that these teachings were foundational, basic teachings and commands of the Bible. You probably have supposed the same thing.

Of course, I had never really studied the Bible-just as you very possibly never have. And i( never occurred ro me that the pasrors of our church never preached rheir sermons out of the Bible -thar they merely read one verse, or even parr of one verse, containing a word which was the subject of the sermon, and then closed the Bible and preached on the subject of thar one word. Ir never occurred co me that Christ Himself set the example for ministers of Ii(erally preaching God's ltr ord, preaching directly OUt of the Bible, and expounding it with ocher Scriptures on the same subject-and all

in their proper context.

Up to this point, you may have had

a similar experience.

The CHALLENGE!

Then came the disturbing challengel My wife had vis ited a neighbor lady, who had asked her co read cenain pas­sages in her own Bible. My wife, ex­uberant, overjoyed at finding what she called new trurh, ran co tell me. She claimed she had seen, in her own Bible. (hat one of these universal teachings, memioned above, was contrary to the Bible. She had found in her Bible a diamercic opposite teaching, which she had accepted.

I was not overjoyed. I was dismayed, shocked, angry! All these teachings I have listed were so 1tniversally accepted, that anything different appeared ro be fanaticism.

I thought my wife had suddenly gone crazy!

"Wha( would my friends think?" was the thought that filled my mind. I was sure chey would think my wife a re­ligio1tI fanatic! My pride simply could nor; take that sitting down!

Bur I could not talk her all[ of it. She insisted that she had acmally scen, in her own Bible, what she now called TRUTH-and which 1 called outlandish FANATICISM!

"Look," I said, "you can't tell me all rhese churches are wrong. They get their beliefs and practices Out of rhe BIBLE. This neighbor lady simply gave YOll a wrong interpretacion. What do )'0# know about interprering the Bible?"

"No," she insisted positively, "1 did not 'interpret' (he Bible. The Bible

ought not to BE interpreted at all. Like

any book, it says what it means, and it

means what it says. Bur why don't YOU

look into the Bible and see if you can

find in it, anywhere, what nearly all pro­

fessing Christians think (he Bible says

on (his question. IF they get it am of

Page 16

the Bible, WHY DON'T YOU TRY TO FIND IT IN THB BIBLE? You say that all the churches get their beliefs and practices OUt of the Bible. Go ahead! I challenge you to try to find their teach­ing on this question anywhere in the Bible! If you can find it IN THE BIBLE­then I will go back to it, and give up what I say I have now seen commanded in the Bible."

I was angered inco my first study of the Bible.

For six months I searched night and day. Often I was up searching and studying until after 1 a.m. I procured literature, pamphletS, books from many religious denominations on the subject attempting to suppOrt the generally ac­cepted doctrine and practice on this point. Yet not one 0/ them showed any Biblical authority for its teaching and practice on this point! They devoted their arguments to trying to tear down and refute and discredit the BIBLE TEACHING, which I now, myself, saw was clearly and plainly taught IN THE BIBLE from Genesis to Revelation. It was taught and practiced by Christ, the Apostles, the Gentile churches! It was nOt an interpretation-it was there in plain language.

The Astounding Surprise!

Then I began to search IN THE BIBLE fot many of these other popular teach­ings.

I COULDN'T FIND THEM! Instead, I found diametric opposite

teaching! I was shaken, bewildered. My head was swimming. Everything in my mind was shaken up! It was like a woman giving her house a general an­nual spring housecleaning. Suddenly dirt and clutter appear from behind things, in drawers and closets. For a while all is misplaced, untidy, in confusion. But after the dirt and rubbish are cleaned away, all is more orderly and clean than before.

The shocking realization began to

dawn on me that in what is called the Christian religion today, its exponents and leaders-in fundamental orthodoxy -TAKE FOR GRANTED-CARELESSLY ASSUME-MANY, IF NOT MOST, OF THE BASIC BELIEFS AND PRACTICES­TALK ABOUT THEM CONTINUALLY AS IF THEY WERE TRUE-NEVER READ-

The PLAIN TRUTH

ING THESE THINGS OUT OF THE BIBLE, NEVER PROVING THEM BY THE BIBLE­always simply reading a verse or a sentence or part of one here and there about other things Out of the Bible!

Yes, it was hard to believe-but IT WAS TRUEi

You Haven't Realized

Now take your own case. You HAVEN'T REALiZED THIS, probably. Yet all your life you have heard religious leaders, preachers, professing Christians, TALK about "going to HEAVEN"-as­suming it to be the place where the "SAVED" go. But stOp and think! Have you, actually, EVER heard this READ OUT OF THE BIBLE?

Have you ever heard, in a church service-or read in a book or magazine or religious uact or piece of literature­a statement quoted OUT OF THE BmLE stating directly, plainly, clearly, that any "saved" person actually did go to

heaven-that is, the heaven of God's throne-or that IF one is "saved" a plain, clear PROMISE that he shall go to

heaven? You HAVE NOT! You may think you have. You have

heard people TALK abour "going to heaven" ever since you can remember. You have heard it ASSUMED, as if the Bible taught it! So, naturally, since the Christian religion is SUPPOSED to come our of the Bible, you have TAKEN FOR GRANTED without question that the teaching of going to heaven came our of the Bible.

BUT YOU NEVER READ IT IN THE BIBLE!

You never heard a sermon PROVING, by plain literal Bible statements and promises, that any dead human (except Christ) or saint ever did go to heaven. Jesus Christ said PLAINLY that NO MAN had ever ascended up to heaven (John 3:13). Read it in YOUR Bible! The inspired Peter said David had not gone to heaven, bur was buried in his grave (Acts 2: 29,34) and yet the Bible clearly says David shall be in God's Kingdom.

The Bible says plainly the "saved" shall INHERI'i' THE EARTH in clear language, Psalm 37-that they shall not be removed from it ( Proverbs 10:30). If we ate Christ's we are HEIRS to the PROMlSES God made to Abraham. What

August, 1961

God PROMISED Abraham and his chilo dren through Christ is THIS EARTH for an EVERLASTING POSSESSION-Genesis 12 through 22. Also see Romans 4: 13. This promise is in PLAIN LANGUAGE. It is stated again and again and again. It is nOt nullified, refuted, contradicted, by INTERPRETATIONS of John's visions.

For years I offered, first $5, then $1,000, to anyone who could show me any Scripture in the Bible promising that we may "go to heaven," or that anyone except Christ ever DID go to

the heaven of God's throne, or giving any plain, clear, real HOPE that he might. THERE WERE NO TAKERS!

No, surprising though it may be, YOU have never read any such teach· ing IN THE BIBLE. YOU have never heard it expounded and PROVED BY THE BIBLE in any sermon, or read it in any book, booklet, article or tract!

You HAVE HEARD IT ASSUMED, TALKED ABOUT! You have taken it for granted. You have supposed they MUST have gotten it out of the Bible!

Advertising Psychology

There is a bit of advertising psychol­ogy that has worked on us all.

It is a trick, bur it works! When I was JUSt starting out, still

unconverted, at age 18, in the advertis­ing profession, I read in a book on ad· vertising psychology that if we ASSUME a thing to be so, and we state it over and over, often enough, people come to take it for granted and actually believe it.

I was assigned to sell a few columns of space in the want-ad section of the daily newspaper, in display ads, to sec­ond-hand furniture dealers. These deal­ers did nOt believe in advertising. They nevet did advertise. Actually I don't think my department manager expected me to be able to sell a single ad. He was just breaking me in as a new, green boy. He assigned me to what he thought an impossible job, partly as a joke.

I picked the store supposed to be the hardest to sell, firSt. I got acquainted with the owner, bur at first made no attempt to tell him what I was there fo£, or get him suspicious I was trying to sell him an ad. That would only have gOtten his resistance up--closed his mind. I began to tell him, however,

AUAUSl, L961

thar 1 was a young advertising student, scarring to learn how co WRITE adver· rising copy. Then I mentioned chat, IF [ were co get a job as advertising man· ager in a store like his, 1 would describe this dining sec in such and such a way -thac parlor set in such and such a way. Then I began to PRACTICE, which he ler me do.

As 1 was writing, I began ro just TAKE FOR GRANTED that the ad I was writing was going to be a modest small ad-say, only in the want· ad section, where it didn't cost much, but where thousands would read it. More and mote 1 began to take for gramed that we were really going to run this ad in rhe paper. NOT ONCE did I ask him if he wanted to-I simply ASSUMED he was going to. I kept this up about an hour, tben began to ask whether he would rather have it at the TOP of the page, or at [he bottom. When he said at rhe TOP, he bad committed himself. I rhanked him, and ran our quickly. I did nOt ask him WHETHER he wanted ro buy rhe ad-that I took for granted -and by rhis rime he had raken ir for granted, tOO, so that when 1 asked him WHERE he wanted it placed on the page, he automatically answered. That broke rhe ice, and I sold my assigned number of columns, to the surprise of my "boss." 1 HASTEN TO ADD AGAIN THAT 1 WAS THEN ONLY 18, AND NOT YET CON· VERTED!

Bur rhe psychological trick WORKS! \Xlhen a cigarette manufacturer keeps

telling the public in ads in magazines and newspapers, on TV and radio, and on billboards, over and over, that his brand makes the smoke "TASTE BET· TER," nearly everybody gets to accepting rhe idea that people TASTE smoke. Ac[Ually, smoke is tasteieu. People SMELL the tobacco smoke! But people BELIEVE what advertising men keep telling rhem over and over and over. You probably have believed rhis your­self.

And so, also, have JUSt about aU of us believed that THE BIBLE reaches that the "saved" are to GO TO HEAVEN. We have supposed it came Out of the BIBLE.

HOW We Have Been Deceived

Jesus Christ said rhere would be MANY false prophets, nO[ a few. The

The PLAIN TRUTH

Bible says ALL NATIONS have been de­ceived. Jude says people have gotten away from the TRUTH originally deliv· ered through Christ and rhe true apostles.

Most people have no idea whatever of HOW, generation after generation, when people reared as pagans began to profess Christ, they held on to some of their PAGAN teachings and customs. One generation brought a few of them into accepted Christianity. Another generarion added a few more. Gradually, down through the centuries, "Chris· tianiey" became more and more pagan· ized. PEOPLE ACCEPT AND BELIEVE WHAT THEY FIND EVERYBODY ELSE AROUND THEM BELIEVING!

And so people have come to accept, and to practice, teachings and cuscoms diametricaUy CONTRARY to those taught IN THE BIBLE- all rhe while supposi1lg they carne Out of the Bible!

WHY Trurh Sounds STRANGE!

So it is, that when someone comes along with sornerhing different than that which is popular and almost uni· versaUy accepted BY PEOPLE, even rhough it be TRUTH, even though it corne out of THE BIBLE- it sounds strange-it appears fanatical!

It is in our human nature to be CONFORMISTS. We seem to wam to GO ALONG. We want to BELoNG--that lS,

to HUMAN groups. It does not seem to occur to us to

ask ourselves: "What will GOD think?" bur always, "Whar will PEOPLE rhink?" if we accept a different belief, or a different custOm. VANITY makes us want to be well thor'ght of by rhe PEOPLE-chat is, the PARTICULAR GROUP, SOCIETY, CHURCH, CLUB, or those we look up ro and want to get in wirh.

So, immediately, if Christ's own TRUTH runs coumer to their ideas, practices, or beliefs, we find automati­caUy a great wall of prejudice looming up as a barrier against the truth. We resist it. \Ve resent it. We become angry at it or those who bring it to us.

10 a debate the general idea is to

REFUTE everything the "worthy op· ponenrs" say. Scarcely ever does a de· barer or a debating team honestly can· sider and weigh whether his "honorable

Page l7

nA, TA~ HA PYCCKOM H3hIKE I

Y:1l:e BbllliJIa 11 3 6pOlliIOpa:

"KAKAH BEPA CI1ACAET?"

BblCblJIaeTCli B OIlHOM GK -3eMTIJIlipe Ha oco6y, 6eCTIJIaTHO, JII1~aM, KO-TOpble 06paTllTCli 3a HeM IlJIli CaMI1X ce611.

I1l1llil1Te TIO allpecy : THE WORLD TOMORROW

Russian Department Box III

Pasadena. California

opponent" is right. The opponent must be proved WRONG, by hook or crook, no marrer whether he is right! The idea is to defeat him and win the debate! It is not a search for TRUTH. I have, in past years, been challenged to debate Bible trurhs-bur I have refused, 6rst, because rhe Bible itself forbids debare and commands me nO{ to get into such disputes that engender strife; and sec· ond, because the challenger, I know, would never have an open mind bur would be bent only on resisting, deny· ing, disproving every crUll I mighr ad­vance, and discrediting me as a person, imputing evi l motives, in addition.

When Jesus came reaching Goo's TRUTH-with rhe G reat Message from God to mankind- He came to a people steeped in beliefs and custOms dia· metrically CONTRARY to His truth. They had been broughr up in rheir teachings and customs from babyhood. HIS MESSAGE WAS STRANGE TO THEM. Actually, ir was their beliefs and ways that were STRANGE, but of course they didn't seem strange to the people.

Whatever is DIFFERENT from that [Q

which we are accustomed seems STRANGE! We tend to resent and resist it! Yes, it is recorded thar the people were ASTONISHED at Christ's doctrine.

Today, in rhe PLAlN TRUTH and on the WORLn TOMORROW program, we teach and preach HIS SAME DOCTRINE -we lirerally preach rhe Word of Goo -and roday people are ASTONISHED-shocked!

Yes, I know-I WAS MYSELF! Bur I

Page 18

did not run away from it. 1 did not refuse to let myself think abom it. if we REJECT knowledge, GOD ,ay, He will reject Its! I found (he trurh REALLY

GOOD! And it is not strange, after all!

THEOLOGY without God

(Conlimted from page 14)

ters such as these? "Is not my word like as a fire? sairh the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Therefore, behold,l AM AGAlNST

the PROPHETS [preachers) that STEAL

MY WORDS every one from his neighbor" (Jer. 23:29, 30) .

Yes, the Almighty GOD IS ANGRY with such PERVERSE teachers that STEAL

His message by tearing words and verses 0111 of the Bible! God is ANGRY with this FIENDISH pIer, which ROBS US OF His OWN WORD!

Speak ing of religious reachers, Jere­miah says: "., Ye have PERVERTED

the words of the living God, of the Lord of hom our God. Behold, a whirl­wind of the Lord is gone fonh LN FURY,

even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. The anger of (he lord shall not rerum, until he have executed, and till he have performed the rhough" of his hea,,: in the LATIER DAYS ye shall consider ;, perfectly" (jeJ. 23:36, 19-20). This is for Otet' time, Our day, the 20th Cen­rury!

Punishment from God is coming on theologians who have forgotten their Maker! You have seen theology with­Out God exposed. But this is only the backgroU1zd, the preparation already laid.

Who is really CONTROLLING rhe­ology? Are theologians the unwitting tools of a g reat mastermind? What of the new trend JUSt now coming to light -a trend so vicious, so deceitful that it STAGGERS the IMAGINATION! How will all this afJect you?

This plOt is calculated co reach and corrupt the entire population of (he narion-it has already ensnared dozens of the largest Protestant seCts!

Read the next installment for the an­swers which may change your lifel

Tbe PLA IN TRUTH August, 1961

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sees Communism Firsthand

"Dear Mr. Armstrong: "Your sermons are greatly appre­

ciated. We are JUSt 60 miles from Cuba. Our boars ply back and forth carrying fruit to the Nassau market. I know you will understand what the fate of Cuba means to us. Now that the farmers have to sell everything co the government; then to the agent; then to us, there is very little profit in it. I never realized 1 would have to live so dose to a com­munist country-tO see and know about the sufferings of the people involved. They are so unhappy."

Reader from Ragged Island, British West Indies.

Poorly In formed???

"You apparently cannot see beyond your nose. Referring to Berlin, you are either poorly informed, or choose to

purposely omit the truth. For your in­formation, the United States has pumped $26 billion (?) into Germany just to build up West Berlin and create a 'faJse front.' Let's keep religion oue of world politics. Your place is in the spiritual."

Man from Vancouver, Canada. (Editor's Comment: West Berlin is only pari of the West Germany that has been built up. The West German Treasury is now the richest in the world! We have published many pic­tures from differenr parts of West Ger­many showing her absolute resurgence -her victories in the TRADE WAR!

These pictures were taken by leading reporters and correspondents. WHY

HASN 'T THIS MAN SEEN THESE PIC­

TURES AND REPORTS IN OTHER NEWS­PAPERS AND MAGAZINES?)

Germany Growing

"Dear Mr. Armstrong: "\VhiJe I was stationed in the States

I had many times read The PLAIN TRUTH or heard you speak over the radio concerning the rising of Germany as a major power in economics. Since I didn't know the news toO well at the rime, 1 have since been reading all the news magazines I can get my hands on.

I wasn't taking your word for it. The Air Force transferred me to Germany and rhere I saw that your preaching was truc. Germany is a major power and growing each day. The unemployment in the States is extremely high, while the Germans have to impOrt foreign help to filJ the empty gaps. The military newspaper 'Stars and Stripes' stated re­cently that there were approximately 100,000 vacancies begging for filling."

Man, USAF, Germany.

Feeling of Friendship

"Congrawlations on your new, en­larged PLAIN TRUTH. The addirion of 'Hean-to-Heart Talk' plus photos of yoU! fami ly and Staff give a feeling of closeness and friendship in reading the various tOpics."

Subscriber from California.

M issed an Issue

"When The PLAIN TRUTH came a few days ago, for a minute I didn't know which I was going to do, laugh or cry. 1 was so happy to receive it. The May issue never came and I missed it so much, but June made up for it, and it is so much larger, and the pic­tures of all are so nice. They are some­rhing to remember and cherish. Many thanks."

Man from Danville, Illinois. (Editor's Commel1,t: From time co time a PLAIN TRUTH reader misses his copy. il this happens, be sure to write us so we can send another copy.)

PLAIN TRUTH Grows

"It was a real duill when I took my larger PLAIN TRUTH from the mail box. I received my fi rst copy in June 1954-a rhin /ittle magazine, then 16 pages. One morning my PLAlN TRUTH

came with a beautiful front cover, and dght more pages, then The Bible Story, and now, more pages of good reading -not cluttered up with commercial advertising. Your picture is a good one. It doesn't look much like some of the ones shown in the early parr of your aurobiography-a little older, perhaps -but you have that alive, alert, fuJl-of-

(Plea,. conlinne on page 39)

How Your CHILD Learns HOW does your child learn-and WHEN should you begin to

teach him? Here is the tenth installment on Child Rearing.

H UMAN beings are creatures of habit! Not very many people, it seems, have ever scopped to ask

themselves how it is they have come to

believe the various concepts, philos­opbies and doctrines they assume co be true. Each one of us came inro existence as a baby, knowing absolutely NOTHING at birch.

The human child is the most helpleIS of all newborn creatures. The young colt, the calf, even the baby porpoise and whale are able to stand, walk, leap or swim within hours, even minutes afcer birth!

But they are creatures of instinct.' A human being does not have instinct, bur a MIND! No one had to teach the young colt where co go for its "dinner," It simply went there-automatically! But God gave man a mind capable of accumulating knowledge. It is a mind much like rhe mind of God, rhougb limited in its capacity.

Almighty God, who created all life in all its myriad forms, set and plamed that instinct within all the varied forms and species of animals.

There are five channels by which knowledge may come into the mind. Ac birrh-you knew absolutely NOTHING! The newborn human infant would STARVE TO DEATH if it were nor taken by the more intelligent parent, and nursed! Oftentimes, though nor always, the morher must even begin a type of sucking modon with tbe jaws of the child by manipulating its lower jaw in order to reach it the habit of nursing. This is nor always true, but serves to

illustrate rhe amazing fan chat the greae· est creation in the physical sphere­that of the human mind-has such a simple beginning!

Learning By Association

As a creacure of habit, a baby begins to LEARN at the very INSTANT of its birth! The way in which it first teams is by mere association. But these "as· sociarions" begin to form cerrain HABITS

by Garner Ted Armstrong

within rhe rapidly growing and develop· ing mind of a newly born human baby. let us understand the way in which the newborn child learns.

Very quickly, the baby becomes ac­customed to the smell, the taste and sounds of·its own mother. (We are here speaking of that which is the average and normal, nOt foster rnorhers, wet· nurses, etc.). If rhe infant of only a very few weeks is hungry, and begins to cry for his food, it may be observed that he will ofrentimes quir crying the moment he is picked "p by his mothet, because tbe J01md of her reassuring voice, the feeling of her arms lifting him from his bassinet, and the smell of her own body has begun to become completely associated with the satisfying taste of her milk!

Perhaps YOli have seen cases where tiny babies have been reared in very quiet homes. Ir takes only the slightest ratrling of rhe botrles by the milkman, the dropping of the cover on the mail­box by the postman, or tbe barking of a dog to awaken the child from a mid­afternoon nap. This is rrue, because the baby has become accmtomed to living in a very quiet environment. if rhe child has been used to a noisy environment, such trivial sounds would never dismrb him during his nap.

This factor of learning by aJIociat;o1l is so vitally importaor that ic must be understOod thoroughly.

In training young hawks, or falcons, [he following procedure is somewhat generally utilized:

The newly hatched bitds are placed in roral darkness. It is known rhat dark· ness, (hence, a hood, when in tbe field ) completely subdues rhis very wild and ferocious bird. Ar feeding time, a gentle shaft of light is admitted into the pen, and the trainer begins ro utter soft and l'eassming sounds, talking and "cooing" ro the birds as he defrly slides a plate of rheir food into tbeir pen wirh a heavily gloved hand. This process is continued ar each feeding mrough sev-

era! weeks. Gradually, the young birds begin to associate these things together. The light entering their pen, the reassur­ing smell of food and its taSte, and the voice of the crainer. Hence, they begin to rely on rhe voi.ce as being [he 1m· mediare forerunner, and closely associ· ated with, a complete and satisfying meal!

Gradually more and more light is ad­mitted to the pen, and rhe hand of the trainer begins to pick up or ro stroke [be birds on occasion. This process is repeaced, with various changes and vari· atio05, over a period of several weeks and months. Eventually, the birds are trained by mere ASSOCLA TlON to come to rhe whistle of rhe trainer, perch quiet­lyon his padded arm, or to soar aloft, swooping high above an unsuspening pigeon or Other bird, darting down upon it in speedy Righr, knocking it to rhe ground, and rerurning to the trainer at his call. The trainer never confuses the birds with unnecessary. extraneous sounds and commands.

Isn't it a piry more parents do not understand this marvelous truth of as­sacation, and thereby avoid so much that is extraneous and nonessential in at· tempting to get a child to obey their admonitions?

No sensible dog trainer would think of confusing a dog under training with more than the simplesr, straightforward and direct commands!

In attempting to "house-break" a dog, the dog is simply taken to his sandbox, newspaper, or outdoors. He is reassured, patted and fondled. The trainer tries to

catefully take the dog to such a place at

prescribed inrervals. If and when tbe dog makes a miStake (and they usually always do!) the trainer very severely rebukes him, says, "bad dog!,' forces him to smell the mess he has made, and Jpanks him for id Gradually, by con­sranr diligence, and by means of ASSOCI­

ATION , the dog becomes housebroken. He learns thar it is going to net harsh words, and a spanking for relieving

Page 20

himself in cenain areas. He learns, on the orner hand, chat he will be given cidbics CO eat, 3 reassuring hand and a soft voice when he uses his prescribed areas.

There are absoiueely millions of par4

ems today who do not know how CO

keep a child from becoming as destruc4

tive as a proverbial "bull in a china

shop!" They are completely belpleu to keep

their child from crawling about from one thing CO another, turning over kn ick­knacks, pulling doilies from tables, pull­ing oue eleccric plugs, tearing up books and magazines, or any ocher of the one thousand and one differem things a utrle crawling infant seems ro "get intO."

Myriad, cOltntleJJ, it seems, are the parents who have noc [he slightest glimpse of understanding as co HOW co cope with such a situation!

Isn't it a pity? If they could realize their child is a creature of HABIT-bur that habitS are fotmed by ASSOCIATION, that each habit must be TAUGHT, much of the problem would be solved,

W hen Should You Begin to

Train You r Child?

A vitally important principle every parem needs [Q understand is mat good habits mUSt be constantly taught rhe child, beginning AT BIRTH!

.. 'Never tOO old to learn' is cruet in reverse. The further it is reversed, the truer it becomes. 'Never tOO young to learn' is the idea parents and nurses should always bear in mind. The more a behavior pattern is affixed to the pri· mary, simple, unconditioned responses, the easier it is to eStablish firmly. That is to say, the sooner habits (good or bad ) are inculcated, the mote force they will have, (he longer they wiJI endure, the harder they will be [0 change. "Then 'jUSt as the Ill/ig is bent,' Pope said, 'the tree's inclin'd.' This remark, with the one made by Robert Southwell in 'Loss in Delay,' 'tender twigs are bent with ease' and 'aged trees do break with bending,' sums up the outstanding points in the Story of man's emotional background. If we allow our children to become twisted tOO far and wait for the prevailing winds and recurring storms of the world [0 force them into line after they are fully grown and stiff· ened in their individual patterns, tbey may break. A multitude of men and women do" (As Ihe Twig Is Bem, p. 22, Hohman). Yes, the rime fO begin. training chil­

dren is tntlch earlier than most parents think!

Unfortunately, nor all writers on child training give such sound advice.

Tbe PLA IN TRUTH

Because of the CARNAL nature in hu· man beings, which is a nature tending to dege,ze-rateJ rather than build up, it seems to be much simpler for children co acquire bad babits (han i( is (0 learn good ones. Hence, it appears that rhumb· sucking, throwing silver on rhe floor, or other habies are acquired afrer only twO

or three attemprs, while ir rakes many months co teach a child co scay dry. The simple answer to this problem is that the carnal child learns much more quick4

Iy ro do char which is pleasurable, (hat which satisfies rhe downward pull of his nature, that wh ich is curious, interesting1

and eOlY to do, RATH ER [han dlat which takes effort, concentration, and persisr4

eoce! 1r is 1n1tch ealier ro obtain a bad habit than it is to acquire a good ooe!

Obviously, since the child repeacs what he enjoys, it is good for parents to make interesting and enjoyable things which the child needs to acquire. How· ever, when all is said and done1 the child must leam. to do that which is "ight l

enjoyable or nor! Most parents assume their very ti11Y

children are 1-00 y01mg ro reach! They believe they should wait unti l (he child is old enough co "understand." However, rhis excuse is often carried over into most of the pre·school years by many parents, resuldng in a perfectly horrible little child who is rebellious, ill·man4

nered, disrespecrfuL tOward his elders, and generally descructive.

The truth is, it is impossible co begin TOO SOON! More will be said about chis larer--on exactly HOW [Q attain (he desired result wirh very young children -bur a good slogan ro remember is rbe one already quOted : "Never roo young CO learn!"

Learning By Imita ting

Perhaps the second mosr important manner in which a very young child acquires certain habits is through mim4 icking and imicating others.

"Even the simple reflexes . .. such as breathing, the movement of the hands, arms, legs, trunk, smiling and crying, soon show the effect of your training­soon become influenced by the kind of life you force your child to lead. "But you may ask, aren't there more complex inherited forms of behavior which appear later as imt;1IC1s1 Aren't such activities as c/;mbitlg, imiltJIion, emulalion and r'ival"!, plI~nacity, anger, .,esemmetJI, sympathy, h,mtiJ1.g, lear, appropriatio'J, acquisitive-lIsu, kleplo4

August, 1961

mania, cOIIStrllctil'811eUI play, curiosily. sociability, shyneu, cleanliness, modesl~h shame, love, ;elJ!olJsy, porelllal IQve, and all of these pure instinctS which ap· pear and run [heir COl1rse complecely beyond the control of the parents? Surely, chese things :lre not dependent upon the way I let my child grow up. Most of the older psychologists would agree with you . The behaviorist be· lieved, tOO, when he began his work, that some of these acts would spring forth fully formed. 8U[ we waited for their appearance in vain . Now we are forced to believe from the study of facts (hac all of these forms of behavior are built in by the parents and by the en· vironmenc which the parent allows the child to grow up in. There are no in· stincts. We build in at an early age everything that is later to appear" ( Psy· chologicaL Care 01 the I'J!allt and Child, pp, 37-38, Warson),

As has been previously outlined, hu­man beings know 110tbing a[ birth. They must acquire, rhrough (he channels of rhe five senses, e-very/hing they come to

know. One of the major ways in which every human being learns is by mim4 ic~ing, imitati1lg ochers.

This merhod of learning is so power· ful, so intense that it follows us all through our Iives--often guiding and mling our every action, our cusroms and our habies, even as marure adults.

Understanding this broad field of imi­tation as a means of chi ld training-it should become immediately dear rhe parents have a frightening responsibility of setting tbe rigb. EXAMPLe before ebe childre1ll

Imitating Evil!

Parents who are raucous, disagreeing, and show [hey are frequently upset wirh one another are going to be surprised to find they will have children who will also become raucous, disagreeable and given to temper displays and angry out4

bursts, It also logically follows that pat­ents with bad cable manners, unclean personal habits, resentment tOward aU4

thority, inherenr laziness or any number of hundreds of similar frailries and faults are presenting a constant, powerful in­jluellce over their children to develop rhese same habirs.

So strong is this imitative impulse in children char ir becomes one of the truly 11lajor reasons for the development of many child criminals, As has already been outlined in a previous installment, criminal behavior is LEARNED. Perhaps the beSt illustration of chis factor is in

(Please cOllti,,,,e 011 page 37)

The Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong

Broadcast makes first expansion; Jewish evangelist sent to Palestine; work grows despite persecutio.ns and hardships.

INSTALLMENT 37

ONCE again, we come [0 the year 1937. In (he p(eceding install· mem I backuacked for (wO pre·

vious incidems, whkh filled the space for chat issue.

Our tWO sons, Richard D, and Garner Ted, ,hen called ··Dicky" and "Teddy,'· were in the second grade at school. We had started them rogerher, in Septem­ber, 1935. The 36,h ioseallmem, in ,he June number, explained why it was a mistake co stare them in the same grade.

Because I had lacked the faith to truSt

God alone, and walk cbcough ,he door He opened to go on the air in Poreland, in lace 1934, that door was slammed shut for cwo sol id years-mltil I tearned the lerro". I had wamed pledges from people ro rely upon-instead of trusting God fully. Bu, ,he people failed God·s cause. The wamed pledges did nor come.

Then, ahour mid·November, 1936-two 'whole years later-when I tcied (0

gee on Pordand's most powerful station, Christ opened, instead, the same door! had neglec,ed emering in 1934! This rime, again, I was unable to obtaiD the needed pledges. But this time, as at the very beginning of rhe broadcasc in 1934, I did crusc God for 'he means. We started then on KXL. smallest-powered lOO-watt scadon, in Poreland. With ie, using Poseal Telegraph wires for a hook· up, we included station KSLM, in Salem. This was our fust Network!

Trucb About Networks

I think it will be interesting, here, to give our readers a few faces they probably do not know abour radio net­works. The telephone companies have escablished a very efficient system of network broadcast lines feeding the various major network starions-CBS, NBC, and ABC-coas, CO coasc.

These are very special lines, specially engineered, and of far greater efficiency

than ordinary celephone lines. They are specially boosted at intervals of abom every fifty miles. This is necessarily a

very costly service-bue the qualiey is as near perfection as human rechnology can make it. Sound is carried instantane­ously from orginacing starions in Holly· wood, New York or Chicago, CO all pans of rhe United States with no de,ecrable loss in conal qual icy. The voke is transm incd as naturally as if the speaker were in your living room or your car. Music, at both highest and lowest freque ncies, is transmitted JUSt as naturally.

The installation and maintenance of mese special lines is a costly operation. 1n 1936 and 1937 we were no, able to afford such perfection in nerwork Jines.

But at that time the Poscal T ele­graph company offered far less cosely lines. These were JUSt the ordinary telegraph wires-far, far from the qualicy of ,elephone special nerwork lines. There were no boosters along the way, and even the lines themselves were inferior, for our purpose. Often mey would fade down or out. Frequently they didn't work at all. The reception at the other end was far from perfect. But we were on Ottf first network, never· theless! We called it the "Oregon Nct­work:'

Everything God seares ,brough humans must, it seems, starr the very srnallest­and somedmes the crudest. BUT IT \VI AS

A START! And, once started, the WORK

OF GOD -never stops.' Not only that, it never stops growing.'

We were to use Postal wires in im­mediate furore years to Seattle and Spokane. Later, the POStal company was absorbed by Wesee," Union. Bu, 'hey helped us get a Start while they lasted!

Even at that rime 1 had my sights on extending tbe broadcaSt into Seattle and Spokane, though I was forced to learn

patience, and wait until God opened those doors. I knew we could nor call it the "Oregon Network" when it ex­tended imo Washington, so, in my mind, I had i, named already the ··libercy Nerwork," ready for rhe future!

Gospel '0 Palestine

Meanwhile, 1 was cominuing ro hold regular Sunday night evangelistic serv­ic.:es in our little church building at the end of We" Eigh'h Screer, in Eugene. Interest and attendance gradually were increasing.

It was either the last Sunday in De­cember, 1936, or ,he first Sunday nigh' in January, 1937, mat a former leader of ,ha, Church of God we find descdbed in Revelation 3: 1 as the "Sardis" church -with which I was trying, in chose days, to co-operate-appeared with a pro· fessed convened Jewish evangelist.

This pardcular church leader. whom I will nor name since I can say norhing good about him as an individual, had a scheme co ge, 'he Gospel co ,he Jews ill Palestine. They had arrjved a day or rwo before, and explained their plan CO me. It sounded real good. In fact, [he idea) itself, 1.uas good.

The reason evangel is ts generally were fa il ing to convert the Jewish people to

Christ, he explained, was their wrong approach. This may noc be the whole reason-but the approach of most evan­gelists assuredly bad been 1.//rotlg.' They customarily started by crying immedi­ately to preach the name of Christ co the Jews. But. explained this Jewish evan· gelist, all Jews have been taught from babyhood co vircually hace, desp ise, and reject the name of Christ. To mention chis name was to set up immediate prej· udice. It raised an immediate impene­trable barrier.

This evangelist, being Jewish, said Jewish people wOlild nor be prejudiced against him, but would listen. Instead

Page 22

of preaching Christ. direct, he proposed CO approach them wirh the Jewish Scrip­tures-Old T estamem on.ly. After arous­ing rneir interest with prophecies being acmaJly fulfilled tOday, he would then turn ro a few passages such as Isaiah 53, Micah 5:2, Isa. 7: 14, describing how the Messiah was co be born as a baby, of a virgin, in Bethlehem, co grow up as a child, to be despised and rejected and crucified.

He said that when he approached ChriSt I-rom the Old TeStament Scrip· rures-from rhe Jewish poim of view­they would listen.

Whether or not many would listen very far, this was the 0111'1 possible ap­proach, I knew, rhac had a chance.

The plan was to raise enough money co send this man to Jerusalem, from where he would work throughout Pales­tine in getting the Message of the Sav­iour ro the Jewish people there.

I agreed to help.

The Deception

On that Sunday morning I iorer­viewed both this church leader and che Jewish evangelist on my radio program, and announced publ ic meetings where che convened Jew would speak at our little church on Sunday nighr, and ac a cilUrch in Harrisburg on Monday night.

That nighr our church building was filled. I sponsored the idea of the tour of Palestine, and asked for liberal dona­tions. Nevet, except for something very special like this, did we take up offerings in any service. The response was liberal.

The next night \ve had a packed house at Harrisburg. Again, the donations were liberal, and the evangelist was on his way.

But a year lacer, after other unpleasant experiences with this church leader dUI­ing 1937, the Jewish evangelisr again visired our home in Eugene.

He had a sad report to make. His effort had not been altogether honesr and sincere. Ir had weighed on his con­science. He knew he ought to recurn the money I had helped raise, bm he didn't have it to repay.

He had gone to Jerusalem. all right. Bur he had found chac [he church and churdl members supposed to exist rhere were nonexistent, he said. The man whose name was used as a representative

The PLAIN TRUTH

of the church also proved, he reporred, co be a representative for other churches, drawing financial compensarion from all of them.

The "converts" being made in Pales­rine, he reporeed, were not Jews at ali, bur Arabs-who were no more con­verted than a guinea pig.

The procedure used in Palestine, he reported, was this: These supposed mis· sionaries, evangelists. or "representa­tives" who drew money from several Protestant denominations, and reported ··large harvests" of "converts," each had a small teor, in which they served tea and cookies. Like a barker at a circus sideshow, they shouted, beat tin pans, made noises to attract a crowd, announc· ing free cookies and tea. When the crowd gathered, the "missionary" went through a short twO- or three-minute "spiel," after which he offered the free cookies and rea to all who would raise their hands and say they accepted Christ.

The natives all raised their hands, partook of the tea and cookies, and then proceeded to the next tent where they got "converted" al1 over again!

Well, as the saying goes, 'ILive and learn/"

I have learned many lessons, in my thirey years in Christ's ministry-and I have been completely disillusioned in regard to tbe sincerity of a lac of pro­fessed religion in this world!

Radio Audience Grows

In a letter to Co-Workers who were regularly supporting God's Work with tithes and offerings, dated February 12, 1937, ic was estimated that the listening audience had grown to some forry or fifty thousand, every Sunday. It was steadily growing "tOward our goal of 100,000" the letter reported!

WHAT A GOAL! That looked mighty BIG, then! Yet today our lisrening audi­ence is estimated at SOme sevemy·five MILLION people per week. However, since the program is now on the air seven times a week, and a large share of our audience listens every day, our present esrimate of the daily audience, per program, is some 15,000,000. Of course, this is 24 years later!

But [he point is, as I mentioned once before, r did not, in (hose days, have any remote idea [hat this work ever

August, 1961

would reach even a fraction of its power of tOday!

I chink I have seated, before, that I did have vision. I did, at that time, look forward to going on small stations in Seattle and Spokane. My horizon had expanded to include the entire Pacific Norrbwest-and at rimes I even en· visioned the entire Coast. Bue the vision of a God-empowered work on the vast world· wide scale of today was that of our living Head and chief Director, Jesus Christ-noc mine! This is His work. I, and our Co-Workers witb me, have been merely instruments in His hands! But che present size and scope and power of this great work is testi­mony to rhe POWER of GOD to build, and increase HIS WORK, and keep it growing until, like the grain of mustard seed, it FrLLS THE WHOLE EARTH!

Whatever plant my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted "P! But God says He will never StOp (he work HE has begun! Whatever is of MAN is destined to come to naught! But what· ever is of God ca·nnot be stoppedl Through [he years we have met bard­ship, persecution, disillusionment--every obstacle! But none could stOp us, or prevent rh is work growing and MULTI­

PLYING in scope and power! Compare the mail response of rhe

broadcaSt today with 1937. A general letter sent Co-Workers on March 19, 1937, reported the following "BIG" mail response: In the paSt 2 V" weeks, 26 letters from KXL, Portland; 20 from liSteners of KSLM, Salem; and 12 from KORE, Eugene. Total 58. The letter then asked: "Brethren, is tbis worth while?" That seemed BIG then. Today, we receive close to 75,000 letters pe·r week during 7 autumn, winter, and spring months, and some 55,000 to

60,000 per week dllting the war met season. And chat is from the UNITED

STATES, only. Besides this there is a receipt of mail at our London, Sydney, and Vancouver offices, much larger per day at each office than we then had in 2V" weeks.

This letter of Match 19, 1937 started out: "I am more chan gratified ac the evidence of rapidly increasing audience, growing power, and mounting inAu­ence." TIlis mail counr inspired tiS to

increased activity then. And, by com-

August, 1961

parison With what God grants us today, that same report gives all of us, whose hearts are in God's Work, greac in­spiration to further increased activity, today!

I wonder if the reader can realize, as I read over these letters and reports from dusty files of 24 years ago, how much deep down satisfaction and inspir­ing GRATITUDE to our God it gives Mrs. Armstrong and me, today! lc was a real struggle, then. It always has been! Bur the results with which we have been blessed-the assurance of concinued MULTIPLYING growth from here on-is mighty gratifying, and worth all it has COSt many thousands of times over! In­cidentally, this same letter had written over the top--"Three more baptized chis monch-Praise God!"

The general letter sent out April 8, 1937 says this: "The radio program is TAKING HOLD! Our mail indicates its vast invisible audience is growing at the rate of ten thousand additional lis­teners every month. More than SIXTY THOUSAND people are in our audience every week." Today tbat many people and more send in letters every week!

There is a REASON for chis rapid and

consistent growth to the present 1961. Thac reason is pardy staced in a para­graph in this letter of April 8, 1937: "This is 1l0t JUSt another religious broad­case. It is utterly DIFFERENT! as I'm sure you realize by this rime. Ie DARES TO PROCLAIM THE BIBLE TRUTH Straight from the shoulder! It dares CO WARN

people of the faSt-approaching dread DAY OF THE LORD, and to preach the only true Gospel-the Good News of [he KINGDOM OF GOD! It dares to

correct modern fables! ,.

The same remains rrue tOday, 24 years later!

More Persecution

On Sunday, May 2, 1937, the pro­gram on the three network stations was dedicated to high school students. By arrangements with [he Pdncipai of Eugene High School, the combined boys' and girls' glee clubs of that school furnished rhe musical portion of che program. The Message was directed to

high school students, in rheir own lan­guage, captioned: "Getting a Real Kick Our of Life." A special norice was sene

The PLAIN TRUTH

To the Prinoipals of the nigh Schools of Oro&on and Southwestern Washington:

Eugene, (lregon April 26~ 1937

Page 23

W111 you please announce beroTe your student body, in assembly, that on next Sunday. May 2nd. the service of THE RADle CHURCH OF GOD will be dedicated to the high school students of this distriot?

The entire musical portion of the program will be furnished by the com­bined boys' and girls' Ole~ Clubs of Eugone High Sahool. undor direction of Miss Caroline Woods.

There will bo a speoial m~ssago, teoming with lire and intere.t, dealinr, with t ho problems, inter6sts and l!lIlIbitione oftho high schcol student---by one who understands their viewpoint and thoir aspirations---whioh I feol sure every student will want to hear. and ovary prinoipal will want to encourage his student-body:eo hear. The subjoot will be "Gotting a Real Kick out oJ: Life. 1I

The program is from TEN to t~n-thirtYI every Sunday morning,--- broadcast over the Oregon Net~orkJ inoluding stations KXL Portland. KSLM Salem, and KORE Eugene. I truet you l'1ill oo-op"rate. as Eugene High is doing. by urging your students to tw\o in for this spacial High Sohool program on next Sunday .•

Sinoerely yoursJ f2 ' .... ~:.~ The RADIO CHURCH OF GOD.

A copy of the special announcement sent to high school principals. The glee dubs combined to give the musical portion of the radio program.

on the Monday preceding co Principals of the High Schools of Oregon and southwestern Washingcon, asking them to announce the program co studems in assembly.

About the first week in July, anorher six weeks' rent campaign was srarred in Eugene. The tent belonging to the Oregon Conference, seating about 350, was pirched on West lOch or llrh Screet. The attendance was good-averaging 150 to 200 per nigbt. As usual, there were a number of convercs.

Augusr 20rh to 29rh, inclusive, a camp meering was held in "Cabin City," on the highway just north of Eugene. The evangelistic campaign ended in time to

transfer the tem [Q the camp grounds. This particular camp meeting was

the lasr of our co-operation with the Salem, W. Va. branch of rhe "Sardis" church. Tbe son of one of rhe so-called "12 apostles" of rhar church informed me of a plot, hatched at a meeting he attended with his father, in which the so-called "leading ministers" of that group intended to use chis camp meer­ing, of which we ac Eugene were hosrs, to arcempc to discredit and ruin the radio broadcasr,

I had announced rhe camp meeting

over the air, weeks ahead, and invired all listeners to ~lttend. Immediarely, on learning of rhe plot, I appointed a Com­mittee ro be in charge of rhe camp meet­ing, and had them go to the "leading ministers" who already were in Oregon, demanding thac all antagonisms and derogatory insinuations against me per­sonally and rhe radio program be with· drawn from rheir plans. They refused, saying ocher ministers from che eaSt coast were corning, whom they could not muzzle, and they were derermined to ruin the broadcast if possible.

Thereupon, I announced chere would be nO camp meeting. In cwo days the "apostle" customarily in charge of rhese annual camp meetings arrived in Eugene from southern California. He came straighr to our home.

What was rhis. he asked, about my rhrearening to call off (he camp meer­ing?

''That's righ t," r said, explaining to him rhe conspiracy ro defame rhe broad­cast and ruin j t.

"Bur you can't scop rhe meeting from being held," he exclaimed.

"Bur I catl, and 1ui/l," I replied. "You see, I have rented this camp grounds in my own name, and I alooe

Page 24

comrol it. I will noc allow the grounds m be used. I have the emire member mailing lise. I shall send our norices informing all of the FACTS, telling them it is cancelled, and noc co come. Abom 85 % of all expected co arrend are memo bers of rhe twO churches at Eugene and up at Jefferson, of which I am Pascor­and they will do exactly as I say. There is no orher possible place where such a meeting cou ld be held. On next Sunday, I shall announce to rhe radio audience that the camp meeting, to stan that night, has been cancelled. NOBODY \'(IILL COME! Now tell me, please--how are Y014 going co smp me from scopping rhe camp meeting, and saving the broad· cast?"

His wife intervened, and advised him to realize that J "had him over a barrel."

He then begged me nOt to StOp it, promising there would be no attacks against me or the broadcast from the pulpit or otherwise during rhe meerings. But I remained adamant.

"Do you quesrion my word?" he asked, a little indignant.

"It isn't yOllr veracity but your ability to srop this vicious and ev il ,mack that I queStion;· I replied.

He reminded me that he was a cousin of the leader in the church, who held all these ministers under his thumb. He said he would GUARANTEE that norh­ing hostile would occur. Finally, on this, I relented and agreed to let the meeting go on.

But there was an undercurrent of bit­terness and hate. Whenever I preached, the next minister co preach devoted his sermon co an attempt to refute, disagree with, and tear down every­thing I had said. I tried hard to preach on subjects thar cOltld nor be dispueed or disagreed with-yet they found a way to twist what I had said and at· tempt to case reflection against me.

Then, at a ministers' meeting. chis very '·apostle' who had always appeared so friendly to me, proved himself will­ing to give a '"Judas kiss:' Having the floor, he said, in pretended sympathy, that dear Brother Armstrong had worked so hardl and was so overworked, that they had decided to '·help" me by re­lieving me of some of my ··burdens:· Therefore, they had decided to appoint another of their ministers (one tOtally

Tbe PLAIN TRUTH

hostile to me ), as pastOr of the church up at Jefferson. He almost wept croco­dile tears of pretended sympathy.

One elder and one deacon of the Jeffersoo church, shocked and thoroughly aroused at this SO EVIDENT subterfuge and bit of deceitful hypocrisy, as a plot to "take over" chat church, and chus rob the broadcast of its tithes and offerings, resigned immediately.

All of us at Eugene church, and half the members at Jefferson severed all connection and effort at co·operation with those who had proved themselves will ing to serve Satan and their own personal greed, and to injure the very work of GOD! 1 am going to END all commenr about that group here, with the epitaph that - like a dead aee -they have since split and resplit and resplit into so many litrie tiny groups, all hadng one anOther, that no one seems to know where all of them are:

These harrassing evenrs were unpleas* am. It really did hurr Mrs. Armstrong and me, and all loyal to God's true Work, very deeply to see some we loved very much willing to be misled by greedy and self-willed lictle powerless preachers. Rut such is life, and sllch is this world!

Jesus Christ said the gate is narrow, and the road hard, difficult, chat leads to

LIFE, and only the FEW find it. We ccr­rainly have found His words true! It bas nor been an easy road. I know WHY Jesus was a man of sorrows. It was not because of persecution against H im l or personal suffering, bur rhe angu ish of seeing those He loved reject the truth and be willing to turn the wrong way to thei r own perd ition! It hurts, deeply, to see people drop by the wayside!

Moving to Larger Station

But in the Work of God, the great blessings outweigh the sorrows 100 to 1. 111 my general letter of August 26, ao­nouncement was made of moving ro a more powerful rad io sracion in Portland -KWJJ, then SOO watts. We scarred on KW JJ Sunday, September 5.

Also at this time opporrunity came to purchase a tabernacle in Portland, for an extended evangel istic campaign and a home for esrablishing a permanent church.

What happened to that, and how the work continued co expand and grow,

Augus t, 1961

\vill have to be continued in next momh's issue.

Heart-to-Heart Talk with the Editor

(Cotllimled from page 2)

day, is like precious pearls being tram­pled in the muck and mire by swine feeding on filthy slop.

Early the other morning in Cologoe, Germany, J saw a contrasring view of human life. Looking OUt our hotel window, I saw, once aga in , German men, and a few women, walking briskly or riding their bicycles Or automobiles down the street, carrying their inevitable leather briefcases--on the way to work.

I canoOt say that I saw happiness written on any faces. But I did see pur* pose. I did see incenrive, drive, determi­narion. These Germans seemed to be­lieve they were really gOil1.g somewhere!

If you ask me what is wrong with America and Bricain today, I will reply "LACK OF PURPOSE!" We don't seem ro be going anywhere, as a nacion. We have no sense of national PURPOSE and MIS· SION, except merely to hang on to the mare rial prosperity we have.

Bur the Germans tOday have purpose wrjrcen all over their faces, and evident in their springy gait and bounce. They are going to TRY IT AGAIN! Down under* neath, mosr Germans still feel the slogan, 'IDellts~hlalld iiber Altesr Down deep, most Germans still have the conviccion that it is their fare to conquer and rule the world as the "Master Race." And the Germans are 1Uorking hard, and produc* ing 1m(.chl By use of the Six*Nation Common Market, they are fast rising to

dominating WOR LD POWER once again. Today, 1 see a prosperous Germany, rapidly growing more prosperous!

Here are the people whom [he Kaiser led into a war of aggression to cry to conquer the world. Here are rhe people who "fell for" Hitler's wild screaming, and with fanaticism followed him into provokjng World War U. Here are people who have proved war-like. Truly, they have the characreristics of a lion and a leopard combined. They are will­ing to spring at the throats of the vic­tims they inrend ro devour.

These people have p,,,posei These

August. 1961

people have incentive, ambition, which arouses them to ACTION, while we Americans and British, lacking national purpose, bask lazily in the sunshine of an already aequired prosperity, on which the Germans, and the Russians-and even others-have designs. We are like a fat, well-fed or over-stuffed domestic animal, tOO well satisfied with the meal we have eaten to show much energy. while these other lean, hungry wild ani­mals are springing about preparing for the leap at our throats to take the spoil.

But WHY are the Germans a war-like people? WHY, when the right LEADER comes along, are they always ready to slave energetically and fanatically for him in destructive military aggression?

Are nOt they, as well as we, all de­scended from the same original human parents, Adam and Eve? And these arn­bitionless, cynical intellectuals on the ferry-are they nOt human children of the same human forefather? And do we nOt all have the same h,.man nature that we have inherited from Adam?

Yes, and here is where we put our finger on the answer to tbe whole riddle. Adam rejected God's TRUTH. The sym­bolic tree of LIFE was simply God's Holy Spirit made accessible, by which our first parents might have received sound minds, comprehension of God's TRUTH, the knowledge of God's awe-inspiring supreme PURPOSE for our potential des­tiny, the knowledge. of God's WAY to

peace, happiness, interested, enjoyable, abundant living-the right KNOWLEDGE that would fire every one of us with tremendous zeal and ambition to achieve the GOOD and the GLORY that is offered us!

Instead, Adam and Eve Cut themselves off from God, and from His Spirit, and from comprehension of His TRUTH. They disobeyed Him, rejected His rule and His guidance and divine help. They reached out and took-by stealing-the false KNOWLEDGE "of good and evil." Their minds became bUnded to truth. They fed their minds on a mixture of materialistic fact and conjecmred ERROR. And we, their children, have fed our minds on the same perverted educational diet ever since. A system of schools was established, under sway of Satan, to perpetuate ignorance of God's TRUTH, and injection of false knowledge and a

The PLAIN TRUTH

false sense of values inca human minds, from babyhood.

The Germans, CUt off from God's Truth and HIS WAYS, have been schooled in "German rationalism." They have been inoculated with the German ma­terialistic ideals of being the Master Race, destined to conquer and rule the world. They believe as they do, and behave as they do, because of TEACHING that has come to them and been instilled into them for generations.

The cynical intellectuals think and behave as they do because of their hered­ity and their teaching, and worldly in­fluences brought to bear, beginning from babyhood. In their minds they see, like Philip Wylie, the world's evils-but the solution and the true HOPE is hidden from them.

And back of it ·all is the fact that we were all born HUMAN . We are born with carnal minds; minds which can know only what enters through the physical five senses. Without God's Holy Spirit, human minds are incapable of comprehending SPIRITUAL TRUTH. These TRUE values cannot be seen, heard, felt, smelt or tasted-by the physical senses. This TRUE knowledge can enter the mind only by REVELATION-by the channel of GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT.

None can have God's Spirit until he is first convicted by God's Spirit. NONE can come to Jesus Christ, except the Spirit of the Father draw him-so said Christ! And this is nor the time God Almighty has chosen to save the world -but only those few whom He is spec­ially calling now, to be trained for a responsibility in the KINGDOM OF GOD,

VIENT DE PARAITRE

NOlls enverrons gratuitement a tous

ceux qui en font la demande un ex­emplaire de "L'HISTOIRE AUTHEN­TIQUE DE LA VERITABLE EGLISE".

Priere de s'adresser a:

LE MONDE A VENIR Box 111

Pasadena, Californie U.S.A.

Page 25

when Christ rules the whole earth. We are called, now, to proclaim the advance GOOD NEWS of that wonderful, happy WORLD TOMORROW!

This world, blinded to the true way, is described in Deuteronomy 29: 19: " ... and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse"-( we must reap what we sow)-"that he bless himself in his heart saying, 'I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubborn (mg.) imagination of mine heatt, to add drunkenness to thirst:' the Eternal will not spare him."

This world rejects God's TRUTH­God's WAY of life. It follows the way that leads to curses. Yet, the people say in their hearts-"we are determi11ed to

reject God, and still, SOMEHOW, we shall yet fmd a 1uay to have PEACE for our­selves, even if we have to get it by tak­ing it away from othen ll They are truly thirsty for peace, for happiness, for pros­perity and for joy. But they are stubborn. They want to TAKE these things-the human selfish and greedy way of VAN­

ITY. Instead of the true spiritual waters .... , of life that would satisfy, they try to

quench their thirst on excessive strong drink that brings spiritual drunkenness.

And, truly, they are SPIR1TUALLY DRUNK! Their spiritual eyes are so blurred and Out of focus by the false spirirual wine of pagan myths, super­stitious religions, atheistic concepts, and vain philosophies, that TRUTH is com· pletely blurred co their sight-they are UNABLE ro grasp it!

But, if God has opened our eyes-set them in shatp, clear focus-permitted us to comprehend, through His precious Spirit, what the world is not able, yet, to

see, we need to remember this is DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE-for God will hold us accountable for what we do with it!

I cannot walk up to a misguided in­dividual and force enlightenment into his mind any more than I can make a stubborn mule drink water. Nor can you. But, tOgether, "'"'we can co-labor with Christ, who is our High Priest and living HEAD, in carrying Out HIS MISSION for this rime-proclaiming, as a witness, the advance GOOD NEWS of the joyful WORLD TOMORROW-when Christ in Person will set His hand to SAVE THIS WORLD!

rite J6ible Stofll by Basil Wolverton

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

THE PLAN OF SALVATION

LIKE mOSt people today, Moses wanted to know the PLAN of Salvation. But be-

fore the Eternal explained it to Moses, he first had to listen to special instructions that

would make it clear why we need salvation.

Why We Need Salvation

Did you know that you would not need to be saved from sin, if there were no

sin? People who say they don't need salvation don't know what sin is, or what life

eternal really means. Christ will not forgive us until we repent-quit sinning.

We also need to know that we are mottal, subject to death, and that we need the

Spitit of God as a gift to make it possible to live fotever. So you see, we need to know

what sin is and what man is. That is why God had to explain it to Moses befote ex­

plaining all about salvation.

This new instruction was given by God to Israel, through Moses, about the time

the tabernade was etected. Almost aLl of Leviticus, the third book of the Old Testa­

ment wtitten by Moses, has ro do with rules and laws that were meant to keep Israel

the most outstanding, the wisest, the cleanest nation on Earth. In this, as in other

books of the Old Testament, God also made known certain temporaty rituals which

were required until the first corning of Christ. These wete to teach the children of

Israel the need of a Saviout and the habit of obedience. These temporary ceremonies

are called the "works of the law" in the New Testament. They ceased when Jesus died.

But God also revealed part of His PLAN of Salvation in the book of Leviticus.

A reading of the book of Leviticus should make it obvious to anyone that the laws

August. 1961 The PLAIN TRUTH

of God, which explain what sin is, are wise, good, helpful rules that would be profitable

for happy living for all people of all nations anywhere on this planet.

Bur many diHerent religions, supposedly based on the Bible, have sprung up

down rhrough the centuries. Most of them ha ve little or no place for what are wrongly

termed "Jewish laws." Their followers ate encouraged to ignore God's rules in the

Old Testament, and to regard Leviticus, for example, as only an account of the ancient

"Laws of Moses."

Today, more than ever, people regard the words law, Jew, Moses and Israelite

with a certain indifference and often with contempt. Their religious leaders have either

failed miserably in teaching them the truth or have deliberately withheld the truth

from them. Those who have come with the truth-including Jesus Christ, the Creator

of all men and all things-have been slain because that truth conflicted with the be­

liefs proclaimed by many religious sects. Human nature does nOt change. Men have

always hated those who brought God's truth. (Matthew 23 :29-35.)

Whenever you hear anyone speaking lightly of the Commandments given to

Israel at Mt. Sinai, remind yourself that those were neither "Jewish laws" nor "laws

of Moses." They were God's living laws, still alive and in full, powerful effect. Those

who rurn their backs on them or who sneer at them are inviting upon themselves the

terrible results of sin and the wrath of God.

Whar's Wrong with God's Laws?

Many laws were given to the Israelites, through Moses, in the days following the

dedication of the tabernacle. There is nothing wrong with them. Became men have

broken these laws Jesm had to die. Here are some of them:

Everyone is forhidden to have anything to do wirh idols and foreign gods.

(Leviticus 19:4.)

Making marks on the body, such as tattooing, is forbidden. (Leviticus 19:27-28.)

There are to be no evil sexual practices. (Verse 29.)

No one is to marry anyone wirh whom he or she is closely related. (Leviticus 18.)

Pagan holidays are nOt ro be observed. (Leviticus 20:1-5.)

In giving financial help ro a fellow Israelite or anyone journeying with the

Israelites, no interest is ro be charged. (Leviticus 25:35-38.)

No one is ro go ro a fortune teller or medium ro ask advice or ro look into the

furure. No one is ro have anything to do with a person discovered ro be a wizard, for­

rune teller or medium-those in cOntact with demons. (Lev. 20: 6-7.)

God again spoke ro Moses, telling him ro give more instructions ro the people.

For one thing, there were some who were still so influenced by the religious ways of

Page 27

Page 28 l'iJe PLAIN TRUTH

When Moses told the people the civil laws which God gave him, the Israelites recalled with shame the way so many of them hod pranced before the golden calf,

the Egyptians that they secretly sought to consume blood when they ate their meat,

(Leviticus 17:12-13,) He made it very plain that the life of all flesh is in the blood,

"Anyone who kills or carches any beast Ot fowl that may be eaten must thoroughly

bleed the creatures and covet up the blood, After the blood has drained our of a clean

animal Or fowl, its mear may be eaten , Furthermore, no one must eat any creature

that dies of itself or is killed by other beasts," (Verse 15, first parr,) The only use of blood was as an atOnement, by sacrifice, to remind Israel of their

human sins and of the death of Jesus Christ as Saviour.

The PLAN of Salvation Revealed

To Moses alone God now gave special instructions about the Plan of Salvation,

"Moses," God said, "I want you to pass on to Aaron and rhe other priests the knowl­

edge of my PLAN of Salvation for all mankind, To keep you always in mind of this

plan, I am going to require you and all My people to keep holy cerrain days each

year,"

Moses knew what God had in mind, because He had already commanded the

children of Israel to keep the Passover each year.

August, 1961

August, 1961 He PLAIN TRUTH

"Moses," God continued, "I want to explain to you about my yearly holy day

called the Day of Atonement."

The word "atonement" means to make "at one"-to bring about agreement and

harmony.

The Day of Atonement, Moses was told, was ordained by the Creator to fall

on the tenth day of the seventh month, Tishri. Tishri ordinarily covers the last part of

September and the first part of October on the man-devised Roman calendar the world

is using. When Christ comes again He will restore the use of God's sacred calendar.

Inasmuch as any day in God's reckoning starts at sundown, the Day of Atone­

ment began at the sunset which ended the ninth day of Tishri and ended ar sunser on

rhe renth day. It still does. During rhat period of rwenty-four hours rhe people were

nOt to work and were not to consume food in solid or liquid form. Very young chil­

dren were the exceptions to rhis last rule. (Leviticus 23: 26-32.)

It was the one day of the year on which the high priest was to enter the inner

room of the tabernacle, or Holy of Holies, on ceremonial business. The Day of Atone­

ment was the only time he was to enter on priestly business having to do with sacrifices.

God warned Moses to warn Aaron that if Aaton came into the holy inner room with­

out God's permission, he would lose his life in the manner in which his sons had been

struck dead.

Ordinarily, in performing his duties as high priest, Aaton dressed in the elegant

garments designed by the Crearor. But for the special ceremonies on the Day of

Aronement he was told to bathe and dress in spotless linen clothes that designated

simplicity and humility rather than high office. Only then could he approach God in

the inner room where the ark and mercy seat were placed. (Leviticus 16.)

The special ceremonies held rhat day each year were planned by God to make

clear to the people that they must, as sinners, come ro Him, thr~ugh His high priest,

who represented the coming Saviour, to have their sins forgiven and to be reconciled

to God. Otherwise, they wouldn'r be considered worthy to continue living. Today

Christ is our High Priest and Saviour.

The first thing Aaron was to do was to sacrifice a bullock, or young ox, on the

altar for himself and his family as a sin offering. He was to take some of the burning

coals from the altar, sprinkle them with incense and bring them into the Holy of

Holies so that the sweetened smoke would waft over the mercy seat of the ark of the

covenant. God tOld Moses that if the high priest failed to carry out this ceremony jusr

as he was expected to, he would be subject to death. (Leviticus 16: 12-13. )

Aaron was also to take some of the blood of the bullock into the inner room

and sprinkle it before and upon the mercy seat. This was an act of atOnement for

Page 29

Page 30 Tbe PLAlN TRUTH

himself, his family and rhe omer priests. Thus, first having his sms forgiven, he

would be qualified to ask God to forgive the sins of all Israel.

The high priest was then to be presented with twO goats. One of rhe goats was

to be put on his left side and the other on his right side. A bowl containing twO coin­

like emblems, called lots, exactly alike in size and color, was to be brought to him. On

one of the emblems was to be inscribed FOR GOD. On the omer was to be inscribed

FOR AZAZEL. You may nor know mar Azazel was one of rhe names of Saran, rhe

devil. In many Bibles rhe original inspired Hebrew word "Azazel" is miStranslated

as "scapegoat." Satan is no scapegoat. He is actually guilty of his sins.

The bowl was to be vigorously shaken, so rhat the positions of the lors inside it

wouldn't be known to anyone. Aaron then was to reach into the bowl with both hands and take a lot in each hand. The one in his left hand was to be placed on the

goat at his lefr. The lot in his rigbt hand was to be placed on me goat at his right.

Thus God, who controlled me manner in wbieb tbe lots would be picked up,

was tbe One wbo decided wbich goat would represent tbe Lord and be sacrificed. Tbat

goat On which the FOR GOD lot was placed was to be killed and presented as a sin of­

fering for all me people. This represented Christ's sacrifice to reconcile me world to

God.

Again Aaron was to enter the Holy of Holies, mis time to sprinkle me goat's

blood before and upon the mercy seat. Thus he was to make atonement for all the sins

Israel had committed. (Leviricus 16: 14-19.)

After coming out of the inner room and back intO me court, Aaron was to place

his hands on the head of me goat rhar had been marked FOR AZAZEL and confess over

ir before God all the sins of me Israelites. Thus all the wrongdoings of the people

were to be heaped upon the head of the goat mat represented Satan, since ir is Satan

who is the author of sin and who deceives the people. The goat was men to be given to

one who would lead it far out into me desert and ser it loose away from me people.

This was to represent rhe bauishment of Saran who will be taken by force from rhe

presence of all me people wben Christ returns ro make atonement or make all the

world ar one witb God. (Revelation 20:1-3.)

The person who took me goar was to wash his clomes and bame before he

returned to camp. (Leviricus 16:20-22.)

Aaron was rhen to rake off his speeiallinen clothes, bathe and dress in his ornare

priestly garments. Thus attired, he was to give his personal burnr offering of a ram.

Next he was to give a ram as a burnt offering for rhe people. (Leviticus 16:23-24.)

All rrus was carried out for the first time JUSt as God had said ir should be done.

Thus me Israelires, in spire of rheir weaknesses and sins, became aware rhar mey

August, 1961

A ugUS(, 1961 The PLAIN TRUTH

were the only people to whom God was

revealing His Plan of Salvation as pictured

by these special holy days. God had chosen

them for the special task of preserving His

ttuth, and was mercifully willing to forgive

them their sins.

The Day of Atonement was then and

there started as an annual Sabbath of rest,

with fasting to be observed by all the

people on and on, forever, into the future.

(Leviticus 23: 31.) This is what all the

people were to do on this special holy day.

The priests alone were to perform

the temporary physical acr of sacrificing an

animal. Their duties were only to last /tntil

Christ came.

No More Need of Sacrifices

The sacrificing of anin1als on that

day was no longer necessary after Jesus

Christ was sacrificed, many centuries later,

as the Lamb of God who died because of

the sins of all the people of this world.

( Hebrews 10:4, 10-12 and 18.) When

Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself there ceased

to be any need to sacrifice animals as a

reminder of sin. (Hebrews 10:3.)

Nevertheless, the Day of Atonement

still remains a holy period of twenty-four

hours during which God told His people to

rest and fast. Why isn't it observed today in

the churches of this world? If you were to

ask any number of those in authority in the

The goat was led to the wilderness to picture the putting away of Satan for 1000 years.

churches, you would receive JUSt about the same answer:

"That is one of those ancient Jewish days. Is was only for the Jews. We aren't

to observe it because we are not Jews."

If you were to ask who the Jews are, you would probably be told that they were

Page 31

Page 32 He PLAIN TRUTH

the people known as the Israelites who came out of Egypt under the leadership of

Moses. Then, if you were to remark that Jews are only of the tribe of Judah­

one very small part of the twelve tribes of Israel---and that most Israelites are not

Jews, either the conversation would end right there or you would receive anyone of

a number of stock answers, most of them rather evasive.

You see, most people have never really thought who the "lost" ten tribes of

Israel might be or where they are. God purposely had their identity hidden until these

latter days. The Bible tells us that we would learn, in the latter da)'s, just which nations

have descended from those ten tribes. Today, the "lost" ten tribes of Israel can be iden­

tified' Now this matter is crystal clear to several millions of people who have found

in their Bibles this truth. But religious groups in general refuse to recognize this dis­

covery because it doesn't fit in with what they have taught for so long.

It is time that our people be tOld who we are, though it could be startling to a

Frenchman, a Swede, an American or an Englishman to be suddenly accosted with the

words : "You are an Israelite!" The immediate reply would ordinarily be: "You are

mistaken! I am nOt Jewish!"

The erroneous popular opinion now, as it has been for centuries, is that the

twO main kinds of people on the Earth are Gentiles and Jews, and that anyone who is

nOt a Jew must be a Gentile. But this is not true. Sooner or later all the world must

learn that the nations are made up of twO general groups of people--[s-raelites and

Gentiles. The Jews are of Judah--only one tribe of Israel. Being Israelites we are to

do the things God commanded Israel to do fotever. And any Gentiles who become

converted ate also to do what God commands. That is why you read of "the fast"­

the Day of AtOnement-being commemorated by the true Christians in Acts 27:9.

For the genuine Christian, the Day of Aronement pictures the very near furure

when sin will be placed on the one who originated it. That is Satan. Not until then

will man come into true accord with his Crearor. That time is only a few years away.

Bur in the meantime many things must occur before Christ comes to rule on Earth.

Today, there are hundreds of false prophets who are crying Out that Christ has

already arrived or that He is about to arrive at aoy moment. They don't know God's

true timetable and His Plan of Salvation because they have forgotten to keep holy the

days He made holy.

Seven Steps to Plan of Salvation

The seven steps in God's Plan are pictured by seven special holy periods of time.

These special days are Passover, the Days of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Festival of

Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Festival of Tabernacles, and the Last Great

August. 1961

Augusr, 1961

.. Th. PLAIN TRUTH

Day. People who have forgotten rhese days have forgotten rhe Ime PLAN of Salva­

tion which these days picture. They have come to believe in a counterfeit plan!

We have already learned the mean.ing of Passover when we read about the Exodus.

The Days of Unleavened Bread picture purting sin out of our lives. (l Cor.

5 :7·8.) Leaven is a type of sin. A wave sheaf offering was made during the Days of

Unleavened Bread after the Israelites reached rhe land God had promised them.

(Leviticus 23: 10·11.) This sheaf of grain pictured rhe ascended Christ when He was

accepted by God the Father as rhe perfect sacrifice and as the very firSt of the first fruits

from the dead. (Compare John 20: 17 with Matrhew 28:9.) Very few people know

rhat Christ a,scended to Heaven and returned on the day after His resurrection.

Fifty days later, always on a Monday in Mayor June on the calendar we use,

Pentecost was to be observed. Even rhe Apostles were keeping it after the Law of Moses

ceased. (Acts 2: 1.) This day points to the time when the Holy Spirit firSt came, after

Christ's death, and co the time of the first harvest of souls-to be reaped at the teturn

of Christ. Those who have forgotten this day have forgotten rhat this is only the time

of rhe first harvest.

The Festival of Trumpets, another day of rest, was to be observed on the first

day of rhe seventh monrh, Tishri, in the fall. ( Leviticus 23:23-25.) It pictures the

time mentioned in the book of Revelation when the last of seven crumpets will sound,

and when Christ will come to meet those who will be resurrected to rule with Him

on Earth. (Revelation 11:15·17; I Corinthians 15:52.) Not every nation will give

in at the very hour Christ arrives, but every nation and government will soon be made

aware that there is no choice but co accept Christ's perfect, loving rule. (Zechariah

14: 16·19.)

Next is the Day of Atonement. It pictures Satan imprisoned 1000 years. Then

comes the final time of harvest of souls pictured by rhe Festival of Tabernacles.

The Festival of Tabernacles, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month

(sometime in September or Oaober), was ordained to last for seven days. It is a

time when God cold His people to get tOgether to worship Him after the last crops

were harvested. The first day was (and still is) a holy day of rest. This festival fore·

shadows the rhousand.year period when Christ and the resurrected Christians will

rule rhe Earth. (Revelation 5: 10; 20:4, 6.) People such as Noah, Abraham, Moses and

David--<lead and with no knowledge of anything over many centuries-will be

among those resurrected to eternal life. (Acts 2:34·35; Hebrews 11.) Millions not

yet born will be saved during the millennium when Satan isn't around to deceive rhem.

After the seven days, rhere followed another special holy day of rest.

Today most people never think of observing the eighth, or Last Great Day, as a

Page 33

Page 34 The PLAIN TRUTH

time of rest, realizing that it is to commemorate the period after the millennium when

millions who have died in the past, who have not had any opportunity to understand the

truth, will be brought to life and be given their first opportunity to come to the knowl­

edge of salvarion. JUSt think of the joy to be experienced by those who never before

heard or knew the truth. Those who do overcome will eventually join the joyous ranks

of rhe immortal saints who will have met Christ at His second coming more than a

thousand years before! (Revelation 20: 11-15; Matthew 12:42; Isaiah 65 :19-25.)

Every human being who has ever lived or ever will live must have the oppor­

tunity of learning the truth of God's great Plan. (II Peter 3:9; I Timothy 2:4.)

Everyone will be dealt with in absolute justice by God. (Romans 2: 11. ) Everyone

will have a full understanding of the right way and musr make his own decision as to

whether he will obey God. (Hebrews 8: 11.) Many have already had rheir one and

only opportunity today. There is no second chance.

Finally, the Earth will be enveloped in such a consuming fire that everything on

its surface will be burned up. Even the seas will be complerely evaporated by the

intense hear. (II Peter 3:10-12; Revelation 21:1.)

~ --= --~

The wicked will be consumed by fire.

Then God will come down from heaven in His gigantic holy city, which will de­

scend to Earth. Many people refuse to believe what the Bible says about this shining

city, whose dimensions will be 1,500 miles. Nevertheless, all things are possible with

God, and from then on that mammoth, jewel-like city will be the headquarters and

dwelling place of God and His children-now spirit beings-who will help Him rule

the Universe forever. (Revelation 21: 2-8.)

(To be contjnued next jssue)

August, 1961

August, 1961

Most of our 822 million acres of virgin forests have been cut.

The PLAIN TRUTH

82 million acres of wetlands :::jt:-""c

have been drained or bulldozed out of existence.

Page 35

Aml)assador CoUege Art Department

Tragic U.S. WATER CRISIS beha,vior of most of these subst(mces in screams and on water treatment mechods. And even less do we lmde'fJta~Jd the health effect potemials---especially from long-term exposure to low concentra­tions" (Senior Scholastic, March 16, 1960 ) .

(Colltimled from page 10)

The vast amounts of sewage and indw­trial waste being dumped into these huge bodies of water "are causing the lakes 'to age,' fasrer than rhey would naturally," said John C. Ayers, Univer­sity of Michigan oceanographer. liT hey can, evel1ttt.ally die, he said, if chey be­come overrun wich plants and sil t to the point where they become marsh lands" (San Diego Union, December 11, 1960) .

Much of the time, the water in Lake Michigan around Milwaukee isn't safe to swim in. At one beach, the sludge is actually several inches thick in places."

A newspaper reporter said, "From a distance, the lake looked pretty enough. . , , Bur close ar hand, it appeared to be nothing more than a large septic tank" (Mi/wo1lkee J01lmal, AuguSt 12, 1959).

What's Polluting Our Water?

No, this is not an unusual question to ask, because in addition co the mil­lions of, tons of sewage being dumped pell-mell into our rivers, streams and lakes, other eve1]' more si·niste-r poIlur-

ants are entering upon the scene. "At Cincinnati's Robert A. Taft Sani­

tary Engineering Center, scientists have idenriJied approximately 100 petro­chemical compounds-detergenrs, insec­ticides, herbicides, and solvencs- as wa­

ter pollutants. Says Taft's Bernard B. Berger: ' ltv e have tW idea ho'w ?nawy pet1'ochemicals are in 01(IY streams. But 'we believe that for eve-ry one -we've fouud, tue have missed htmdreds of others, Our ability to protecr warer qual­ity has nor kepr pace with rhe develop­ment of these compounds.' The new conraminants are difficult ro spOt and comrol; they cannot be 1'emoved from the water by cun'em treatme .... • methods" (Time, September 20, 1960, emphasis ours ) .

For an illustration, every single day, one million po-muls of these new syn­thetic wastes float down the Ohio River alone. Top governmenr officials admit they are at a loss in knowing how to

deal with these new pollutants. Said Assistant U,S. Surgeon General Mark D Hollis, "As much as we hate to admit ir, we simply do 1l0t tmdersta1ld the

One Example-Pesticides

"Americans invest more than ttuO billi01J. dollars a year in chemicals to protect their crops and timber from pests and run the risk of poisoning their

drinki1~g water in the process, a wildlife expert told the National Conference on Water Pollution last night. 'Some of these poisons are nor very tOxic to man, while others a1'e among the most toxic materials knotun/ Clarence Corlam, di­recror of the Welder Wildlife Founda­tion. . . said. 'It is too dangerous to ignore the effects of even small quanti­ties of pesticides in the water mpplies,' The beSt killer, DDT, has been fOllod in concentrations in the Mississippi Riv· er at Quincy, Illinois, in the Missouri at Kansas City. in the Columbia at Bonneville Dam, in lake Sr. Gair and the Derroit River. Other eve1t more poisonotts pOlltela1~ts have been fou nd in many smaller streams in tlearly all parts of the cotentry, killing millions of fish,

Page 36

he said" (St . Lo"iJ POJt-DiJpatch, De­cember 14, 1960).

Another Contaminant-Detergents

This wildlife expert went on, in the same article, to explain another recent addition to the lengrhening list of pol­lutants-the household detergent.

"Abour 17,000 wells in Suffolk Coun· ty, Long Island, New York, are or soon wi ll be contaminated by cornmon house­hold derergents ....

"A survey of 54,000 privare wells in the vicinity of Minneapolis and St. Paul showed abour 50% poilution, he said, and smdies from 967 well waters in 13 states showed about 36% coo­taminated.'·

Reports are filtering in from all over the country of accounts of detergents billowing as high as fifreen feer in municipal water supply and sewage tanks; of people drawing tap water with a sudsy "head" on it.

The Newest Pollutant-Radiation

"Many contaminants in our tap water are new and poorly understood," repOrt­ed rhe Reader' J DigeN, March, 1960. "Among the most f,.ightening of these are ,.adioactive wastes." This article dis­closed that the Animas River, a source of water for 30,000 sourhwestern Colo­rado and northwestern New Mexico res­idents ranged 40 to 160% above maxi­mum permissible levels of radioactive content. A uranium mill in Durango, Colorado, regularly dumped radioactive waste into the river.

Disease-Bearing Worms, Too

Another new contaminant-this time a living one-first showed up in 1955 and is now causing nationwide concern. The U.S. N ewJ & World Report of February 29) 1960, focused attention on this contaminant, publishing findings of a U.S. Public Healrh Survey reporr which revealed that drinking water in 13 OUt of 14 rivers sampled contained microscopic worms called nematodes. Their poremial danger isirighrful. Tesrs have shown that those that breed in sew­age plants can ingest disease-causing bacteria and viruses. Indestructible by chlorination, the nematodes completely protect tbe germs they carry.

The PLAIN mUTH

Polio, Hepatitis Traced to Polluted Water!

Doctors Shih Lu Chang and Norman A. Clarke of rhe Robert A. Taft Sani­tary Engineering Center in Cincinnati reported in the Journal of tbe American' Water Works Association chat "an 'ex­plosive outbreak of poliomyelitis' in Ed­monton, Alberta) Canada, was 'reason­ably correlated' with sewage pollucion, and a similar outbreak in Nebraska was probably traceable to the same sources of infection" (Good HouJekeepi"g, Jan· uary, 1960).

The above article also revealed the shocking situation which occurred three years ago at Rensselaer, New York, which is situated along the highly con­taminated Hudson River. During the crisis, in which residents were ordered to boil their drinking water, the presi­dent of rhe counry board of healrh warned that "ciry water in Rensselaer is so polluted it is dangerous for human consumption .... A disastrously wide­spread epidemic (of infectious hepa­titis) ... is greatly to be feared." Only temporarily averred) crisis still looms for Rensselaer and other upstate New York communities depending upon tbe filth ­ridden Hudson.

August, 19G I

After a recent conference which was held to discllss the pollution dangers, the editor of Americllfl Forests voiced this grave note:

"On the basis of faces disclosed) we conclude that we do indeed have a pol­lution problem, and is is a very serio"llJ one. In effect, 'we are li11ing with a ti1ne bomb and when it 'will explode -no one Ca1J say. .. What chese scientists are saying-and in OUI judgment it offers scant comfort-is that WHILE POLLU·

TION WON'T KILL US TODAY, IT WlLL

VERY LIKELY GET US TOMORROW! "

( Arn.erican ForestJ, January, 1961.)

How Imponant Is Water?

How imponant is rhe existence of pure, abundant water to you as an indi­vidual, and to the country in which you live? A. 1. Miller, director of the U.S. Interior Deparcmem's saline water office gave us the answer when he said, 'tWater is so important and vital that IT HAS AFFECTED THE RISE AND FALL OF MORE NATIONS THAN ALL THE ]]V ARS OF RECORDED HIS­TORY" (CorpuJ Ch,iJti Caller, Sep­tember 9, 1960).

Fresh, abundant water is the most important resource-the very lifeblood

These three giant "eggs 'l hou sing fi lte r systems were e rected in Ha mburg, Germany, to purify industr ial wa ste wa te rs. Ne a rly all Western nations fa ce the proble m of water pollution .

August, 196 1

--of any society. When a nation's blood­stream becomes anemic and disease-rid­den, hiscory proves it is on the way out. America is paralleling the empires of the past. As Harper'J Magazine pub­lished in its issue of Ocrober, 1958:

·'Among the greatest monuments IeEe behind by the dead nations of antiquity are the aqueducts-nOtably in Italy, Spain, and the Middle East-which mul· tiplied as a failing civilization outgrew irs water supplies."

Today, hundreds of miles of aqueductS and pipelines snake across vast stretches of parched American deserdand siphon­ing precious water to some of our most populous cities. Billions of dollars more are ro be spent for such projecrs, as the water problem intensifies.

Water Crisis Prophesied

This whole manifold problem-fall. ing water cables, increased demands on the diminishing supply, the horrible adulteration of what water we do have, the rapidly approaching eanh-cracking drought-previews a caiamimus spee­ter propbesied i1l your Bible that is almost beyond comprehensionl

Yes, the Bible is far from sile[\[ con­cerning America's new crisis. God fore­told it was going co occur, and that it would happen because of the sins of His people lsrael. He foretold that because of our mounting nadonal sins, our sky­rocketing crime and divotce rates, our dovetailing moral standards, and yes, our wral unrhankfulness ro Him for [he greatest of His national blessings-pure, abundant water-we were going to see the day when the TAPS RUN DRY.

The Book of Amos prophesied the very condition this coumry is heading into. NOtice chapter 4, verse 6: "And I have given you cleanness of teeth in

The PLAIN TRUTH

NEW CIlEMICAlS

U. S. WATER

DOING?

SUPPLY

aU your cities, and wane of bread in all your places"-tremendous nationwide famine brought upon by drought.

Verse 7, "And also 1 have withholden the rain from you, when yet chere were three months to the harvesc'·-just when it is sorely needed-"and I caused it to

rain upon one city, and caused it not to

rain upon another city"-floods in some areas, droughts in ochers.

What occurs next? "So twO or three cities wandered untO one city, to drink water, bttt they were not Hltisfied." Yes, nOt enough water to go around as city water supplies, shrinking all the time, are rapped beyond capacity, as thousands from drought-stricken towns add to the burden.

Then, as Leviticus 26:25 reveals, "When ye are gathered tOgether within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you." How? Through water­borne diseases-typhoid, dysemery, bep­aritis, yes even polio. Strained beyond hope, streams, down to mere trickles, will nor be able ro provide the fresh water we're so accusromed to.

This is the unpleasant picture being paimed right now. Make sure you have God's protection that this plague will not come near your door.

How Your CHILD Learns (Cotlti"ued from page 20)

the modern habits of television viewing. lsaiatcd voices have been lifted up in alarm over the sadistic brUtalities pa­raded across the dazzling one-eyed mon­ster of television and into the minds of tiny tors. A survey raken in southern California far one week of television

shows prior CO 9 p.m., principally aimed at children, revealed the following dis­gusting facts:

'·One hundred sixty-one murders (500% more than five years ago), 60 'justifiable' homicides, 192 attempted murders, 83 wbberies, 15 kidnappings, 24 conspiracies co commi t murder, 21

Page 37

jail breaks, 7 anempted lynchings, 6 dynamitings, 11 extortions. 2 cases of arson, and 2 innances of torrure, nOt to mention uncountable numbers of pro­longed and brutal fighu, threats to kill, sluggings and maulings and innumer· able unspecified indignities infl.icted in. discriminately on men, women, and children" (Pasadena Slar New!, March 19, 1959).

The newspapers of recem years have increasingly been carrying stories of monStrous brUtalities and cleverly planned crime perpetrated by mere youths-simply because they were "do­ing what they saw over television."

A terribly saddening picture, accom­panied by the following explanation, ap­peared in a Pasadena, California news­paper:

'·Frank Dodd, 13, and his ll·year old brother James ... are being questioned in Arlington, Va., about the death of their father Frank, whose body was found in a padlocked shed at their horne, shot in chest and stomach. He had been missing six weeks. The boys told police they were 'mad' at him and had learned on TV 'how you kill people and dispose of the body'" (Pasadena intiepelldenl, Mar. 4, 1957).

A noted judge, Jacob M. Braude, who is Circuit COUrt Judge of Cook County lllinois, and whose 2S years of experi­ence in municipal courtS of Chicago include more than 10 years of presiding over Chicago's unique Boys Couer says:

·'Much of the inspiration for the juve­nile crimes of today comes from motion picrures, radio, and television, where the gunman, the outlaw, the illicit lover, the gangster is often glorified and-ac the very least-is made out as a per· fectly normal and necessary part of our civilization. "The hope that the men who produce this junk would be sufficiently enlight­ened to police themselves and accept their tremendous responsibility in build­ing youthful morals and standards in­telligently and constructively is appar· ently useless. They have demonstrated rhat the certaincy of dollar profit in smut and violence is more important co them than the moral profit in conStrue· tive fare. "So it's up co parents to know what their child[en are watching and hearing, and to exercise some intelligent re­straint for chem. Parents also have the power of life and death over what is shown on television. Get vocal. Make yourself heard. Refuse to buy produces. You'll get resultS" (Family Weekly, p. 7, Mar. IS, 1959).

Too many parents today think it is "cure" to see a child acrually imitating the carrying our of a horrifyingly brutal crime! There has been rongue·in-cheek amusement over the spectre of young children whooping around the tree where they have tied an amused and

Page 38

patiemly wleranr father, pretending they are burning him at the stake. There have been tOO many parents who have smiled with benign condolence at rhe amics of little rOtS rrorting through the house shouting "Bang! Bang! " at each Other -getting [he vicarious [hrill of killing one ano[her when [hey are hardly old enough to walk!

Children would far rather imitate gangsters, crooks and hoodlums than they would the heroes. Have you ever nociced how ofren children, in playing garnes, will call themselves by the names of some of their television heroes? The chances are-the more of a merciless killer he is-the more "fans" in the

youthful generation he will acquire. Pet owners may be quite concerned

about allowing a cursing man around their talking parrOt-but would think

norhing of lerting their children witness thousands of murders!

Knowing this vital principle of the rapidity wi[h which a child learns by mimicking and imilati11g, it is a capital crime agaillJt Y01lr oum childl'en wallow rhe torally indiscriminate use of rele· vlsLOn, the unsupervised and uncon­[[olled reading of comic books and novels, or to permit yourJelves to dis­play wrong habits and glaring errors in from of your children.

Judge Samuel Liebowitz was asked "How do you aCCount for the rise in juvenile delinquency?" His answer was :

"There are so many impacts on young­Sters toclay which were unknown in the years gone by. Life was much simpler in those days. Today it is so much more complex. And we haven't as yet caught up with the know-how of bringing up children in this crazy, topsy-turvy world we Jive in today .... "Even within the home, the basic tra­ditional values and family living are disappearing. People worship new auto­mobiles and television sen and such, instead of God. and naturall y the ch.il­dren follow suit" (U.s. NewJ & World RepM. p. 68. Jan. 14, 1955).

In summary, then, we have seen that [he child firsr begins learning by the a!lociatio11. of simple sights, sounds and smells. Larer, as he is able ro see and discern, he begins to learn by imitating and mimicking rhe eXllmplel of ochers. I r is nor unril he reaches a few years of age thac he is truly capable of learning by instruction and reason.

This is viraUy essential to undersrand at the outsec in attacking the problem

The PiA IN TRUTH

of child reariog. Mose parents, when their children are newly born, assume their children know v(lstly more cban is ehe acmal case, and, when their children

THE BIBLE ANSWERS

August. 1961

are a lew years of age, glibly assume their children know valily less than is actually [he case! Read next month the truth about corporal punishment.

FROM OUR READERS

Several readers have recently asked: "Would you please give us more details about the free Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Course? We connot ever hope to go to college, but we do want to understand the Bible!1I

The Ambassador College Bible Cor· respondence Course is for everyone! I[ is a tOtally new, difterel.t kind of Bible srudy course designed to lead you, by me srudy of YOM OW" Bible, in your own home, to UNDERSTAND Goo's WORD

-[he TRUTH.

Here are JUSt a fraction of rbe ques­tions covered in me course:

What do present cerrifying world con­ditions mean? WHERE are we headed? How wilJ mankind be saved from ex­tinction by hydrogen and cobalt bombs and mher frightful weapons? WHY did God PUt mao here on eanh? Were you, as an individual, put here for a PURPOSE

-and wbat is that purpose? WHAT is man-WHY is man? What is THE WAY

co world peace-THE WAY co freedom from fear and worry. poverry. sickness, unhappiness? WHAT is the reward-the FUTURE of [he saved? Does GOD acrually exist-cao it be proved? Whae IS God­whar is God like? Is God a Person, a Trinity. or merely PRINCIPLE, Or ES· SENca? If God is Personal and inrelli­gem, what does He look like-how B1G

is He---and how do we KNOW? Doctrinal questions as heaven, hell,

~alvation , law and grace, the great tribu­lation, the rapture-the Virgin Birch. the resurrection, [he second coming, [he millennium are made thoroughly inter· esting.

There has never been a COUlse like this before!

All these, and many more quesuons­the most VITAL, most IMPORTANT ques­tions of YOUR LIFE-are thoroughly gone inco, and you are directed to [he clear, plain, simple answers, i11- 'Y01tr

BIBLE! You will learn HOW to study the Bible-WHY so few UNDERSTAND it. You will PROVE whether rhe Bible really i.r the INSPJRED WORD OF Goo!

This Course is NOT denominational. It is offered free, without tuition fee to

those who earnestly desire to understand [he Bible, and will devore a half hour, every day, [Q irs srudy. The only equip­ment you will need is your own Bible, a good dictionary, paper and pen-al­though, if you are able and wish to pro· vide one or more additional rransiations, a 800d concordanceJ or other Bible "helps," you may do so.

You do NOT send us the answers to

each lesson, but every few months we wHl send you a questionnaire or tesc covering the most recent four lessons to see if you have kept up with your lessons and are scill incercsted in con· tinuing the Course.

The value of this Correspondence Course lies in the KNOWLEIXiE and UN­

DERSTANDlNG you will receive in your mjnd and heare.

The BIBLE is a very big Book, when you undertake to really KNOW ie, and thoroughly UNDERSTAND ir. And if you pursue thjs study earnescly and thor­oughlYJ you wHl nor have completely mastered it aU, or come to complete

knowledge in any ""o,·t period. The length of this course is nOt as yet

derermined. We desire to make i[ COln­prehensive and [borough, bur me ul[i­mate length will depend on the interest and perseverence of its enrolled students. Several tens of thousands have enrolled -additional thousands are starting the course every moneh. The sClldy of the

-

August, 1961

Bible is, and ought to be, a life· long study-not a six months, one year, or fout·year limited coutSe. If ENOUGH of our enrolled students show an interest and desire to continue on, the Course probably will continue i"definitely, As long as God's people continue HUNGRY for the spiritual food, we, God's servants, will continue co feed them. Already in print are 36 lessons and tests.

This is a stirring, vitally interesting CoutSe. It is not dry or dull, It sparkles with INTEREST. But, to benefit by it, you will have to teally put yOUt HEART into it, and NOT LESS than thirty min· utes a day of your time. It will have to become the principal and number one INTEREST in your mind, continuously, day by day, Thete has never been any Course like this, and if you will set yourself to be really devOted to it, you will be richly rewarded by constantly coming into surprising, thrilling, JOY­

FUL new trurhs. If, with this information, you wish to

starr our on this interesting study, then write us IMMEDIATELY. There is NO

tuition fee. You will not be asked for contributions. Your Course has been paid for by others who, of their own accord, desire to let you have a part with thousands of Other students in studying the Bible in your own home. We are not controlled or subsidized, sponsored or endowed or financed by ANY denomi· nation or organization of men-there are no selfish ends to gain--only a desire to serve and SHARE God's precious TRUTHS, in a self·sacrificing ministry of LOVE.

Many of our students belong to no denomination. Many belong to various denominations. Bur ALL, without having any voice to dictate what is preached or taught-which is dictated by CHRlST ALONE-Study God's Word together. This is merely a frank and maight· forward explanation of how this Course is directed-GoO's WAY,

We sincerely hope you will want to

receive the first lesson and then enroll and enter with enthusiasm and joyful ZEAL in pursuing regularly and perma· nendy the thrilling STUDY of YOUR BIBLE,

Enclose yOIH' name and address, and state that you want to enroll NOW in the Correspondence Course.

The PLAIN TRUTH Page 39

For our readers who missed seeing Mrs. Herbert W. Armstrong's picture in the June issue, we publish it now!

Letters to Editor (Continued from page 18)

vim-and-energy look of one who is constantly busy in the Lord's work:'

Woman from Scott Depor, West Virginia.

Where Was Mrs. Armstrong's Picture?

"Dear Mr. Armstrong, "I was so pleased to see the pictures

of you and your family in The PLAIN TRUTH, but what happened to your wife and help· mate? Is she an orphan or something, because there was no picnue of her? Jesus gave the good women credi t in public, , ' , Please don't think I'm criticizing; just gently prodding,"

Woman from Dixon. Illinois (Editor's comment: For the hundreds of readers who have w'ritten for Mrs. Arm­strong's picture-here it is, Thanks for ,he prodding!)

Continue "Heart-to-Heart" Talk

"The 'Hearr-tQ-Hean Talk' with pic­tures of you, your son and the fine, competent men who labor in this great work brought tears ro my eyes when I realized the tremendous effort that is needed to bring the PLAIN TRUTH into my home each month. I am indeed grateful to all, and I hope in the future you can continue with the 'talks' if time permi ts."

Woman, Derrick City, Pennsylvania

Bible Story Holds Interest

"last summer, at the camp where I worked as a counselor, the Bible StOry proved very valuable. I would read it nightly to my cabin group and it held their complete attention and inrerest­something rare for a group of 10· to 12·year·old youngsters, Willie otl,.r things would hold the interest of the

Page 40

children for a shore time, 1 found the Bible Story the only thing that they enjoyed daily."

Man from Jersey City, New Jersey.

PLAIN TRUTH Helps College Students in Africa

"We thank you very much for all rhe help we have been getcing from your organization. Your PLAIN TRUTH

is generally admired with great interest by all students of the Commercial Col· lege. We have been getting and stOck· ing The PLAIN TRUTH in our college library since we started getting it many years ago. It is now an indispensable journal to our college library. We ate gteatly tbankful for this."

From the Principal, Comrnonwealrh College of Commerce, Nigeria.

No More Empty Pockets

"Since tithing, 1 have NOT received any more money in my paycheck, our bills remain tbe same, and we have had to take on the extra care of my aged mother. BUT, and this is our testimony, ac the end of the pay period we have a little money left, plus the knowledge and warm feeling chat we are obeying God, with His divine help, of course; whereas before we only had empty pockers. Both my wife and myself are thankful to the Eternal God that a copy of the PLAIN TRUTH was loaned co us."

Man from Milvindale, Michigan. (Editor's Com",.,.t: Ase you having financial worries? - unemployed?­heavily in debt? Then write for the booklet "Ending Your Financial War· ries!" There is no reason for you to

conrinue under a financial burden.)

Appreciates WORLD TOMORROW

"1 am an airline Captain. For 15 years I have docked many hours in 'the blue yonder.' 1 have heard many sermons and versions of [he Word of God and I can say that 1 have NEVER heard anywhere, anyone expound the truth so beautifully and plainly as I have on The WORLD

TOMORROW broadcast. Sir, please ac· cept my humble appreciation for the tremendous good. you have done for me and my family and all who can and will lisr.en to your truth and digest it properly."

Man from Florida.

The PLAlN TRUTH

Correspondence Lessons Defy Description

"Sirs: "Lessons 21, 22, 23, and 24---<>n 'Pres·

em Evil World and Repenrance'- were wondetful-especially the laSt truee. I know of one studem who had wrinen in a few months ago that lesson 20 made her cry. Bur that lesson was 'tame' com­pared to lessons 22, 23, and 24. They are all beyond description and people who don't take the Bible Correspondence Course are missing our on one of God's fineSt blessings."

Student from San Antonio, Texas.

I Apologize

"I believe I am the one guilty of ac· cusing you of preaching salvation by works. 1 want to hereby apologize."

Man from Grand Prairie, Texas.

Great Moment

"The greatest moment of my life was the night a major league baseball game was rained out. I accidentally tuned to W ABC, and beard The WORLD TOMOR·

ROW. I lost contact for some time; how­ever, I frequently hear you on WINS and WNTA."

Man from Ringwood, New Jersey. (Editor's Comment: If you, too, may have lost contact with The WORLD TO­

MORROW broadcast, check tbe Radio Log in The PLAIN TRUTH on pages 6·7 every month.)

Minister Tbankful

"I am a preacher and I hope you don't mind my preaching what 1 am learning from your books since that is what I am doing. I thank God for your WORLD

TOMORROW program." Man from New York City.

Present World T rends

"For some weeks now I have been listening to your broadcast and I must congratulate you on the fine points you bring forward. I have always been in­terested in currenr affaiIs-and I must admit I'm worried by present world trends. But before 1 listened to your preaching, I cUd not realize how helpful and up-co-date the Bible is. 1 now read my Bible regularly and today at laSt I am writing to request The PLAIN

TRUTH."

Man from Greenwich, N.S.W., Australia 2

August. 1961

'" 0 )C

-- .. :r

I II ... a ... .. ,.. 0 ,. a. Z II ~

!' .. :10

n C

2- .. :z: :;; 0 ~ ~

ii'

- · en r r

•

en m

" n Q 0 1; Z a. 0

" "n ~ 0 .? a:); n '" e...2.V'I

~ 0 ~ ~ c· »

Gl m

"1:1

3: C> -<